Artist: Bill Holman
Album: The Fabulous Bill Holman
Genre: Post-Bop, Big Band
Label: Poll Winners Records
Released: 2011
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Airegin (3:23)
- Evil Eyes (5:28)
- You And I (5:03)
- Bright Eyes (4:45)
- Come Rain Or Come Shine (4:40)
- The Big Street (16:44)
- Sparkle (2:57)
- Tanglefoot (2:29)
- Song Without Words (3:19)
- Awfully Busy (3:02)
- Plain Folks (2:48)
- Back To Minors (2:39)
- Cousin Jack (2:34)
- On The Town (3:03)
- Jughaid (3:23)
- Locomotion (2:49)
- The Moon Is Blue (4:08)
- Ol' Man River (4:09)
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Bill Holman's second album as a leader was originally released on Coral before being reissued on Sackville in 1979. The masterful arranger is heard taking some rare solos on tenor with a 16-piece group of top West Coast jazz players from the era. For the set, Holman rewrote two standards ("Airegin" and "You and I") and contributed a pair of concise originals, plus the nearly 17-minute "The Big Street." Among the other soloists are trumpeter Conte Candoli, pianist Lou Levy, valve trombonist Stu Williamson, altoists Charlie Mariano and Herb Geller and tenorman Richie Kamuca (who at one point trades off with Holman). The music is fairly advanced for the time period and still sounds fresh decades later.
by Scott Yanow