Fontainebleau (album) explained

Fontainebleau
Type:studio
Artist:Tadd Dameron
Cover:Fontainebleau (album).jpeg
Released:1956
Recorded:March 9, 1956,[1] Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre:Jazz
Length:30:58
Label:Prestige[2]
Prev Title:A Study in Dameronia
Prev Year:1956
Next Title:Mating Call
Next Year:1956

Fontainebleau is a 1956 album by jazz musician Tadd Dameron.[3] The title track, inspired by a trip to the French palace of the same name, is a through-composed composition with no solos, while "Flossie Lou" is a contrafact of "Jeepers Creepers".[4]

Reception

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "As is usual with most Dameron dates, the emphasis is on his inventive arrangements although there is space... for individual solos. Recommended."

Marc Myers of JazzWax called Fontainebleau "one of the prettiest octet albums of the 1950s," and commented: "The players on the album come together well, as if carefully selected for their tones... For me, the album is as perfect as a panoramic landscape painting... The music is delicate and cohesive, and the solos celebrate the vistas that dazzle the eye."[5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Tadd Dameron.

  1. "Fontainebleau" – 4:48
  2. "Delirium" – 5:00
  3. "The Scene Is Clean" – 5:00
  4. "Flossie Lou" – 4:50
  5. "Bula-Beige" – 11:20

Recorded March 9, 1956, at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey.

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Book: Bebop - Scott Yanow - Google Books . 9780879306083 . 2020-05-14. Yanow . Scott . 2000 .
  2. Book: The Rough Guide to Jazz - Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, Charles Alexander - Google Books . 5 October 2001. 9780312278700 . 2020-05-14. Scarrow . Simon .
  3. Web site: Jazz news: Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau.
  4. Book: Combs, Paul . Dameronia: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron . 2012 . The University of Michigan Press . 978-0-472-02881-8 . 135–137.
  5. Web site: Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau . Marc . Myers . June 18, 2019 . All About Jazz . January 9, 2024.