Much Brass Explained

Much Brass
Type:	Album
Artist:	Nat Adderley
Border:	yes
Released:	1959
Recorded:	March 23 & 27, 1959
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	39:46
Label:	Riverside
Prev Title:	Branching Out
Prev Year:	1958
Next Title:	Work Song
Next Year:	1960

Much Brass is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley's Sextet with Slide Hampton, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones, Laymon Jackson, and Albert Heath.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars.^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars, stating: "Some interesting arrangements here, presumably largely the work of Hampton, and some delicately interwoven playing which largely belies the bluster implied in the title.... Not immediately identifiable as a 'typical' Nat Adderley record, but a beautiful statement all the same."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Nat Adderley except as indicated

1. "Blue Concept" (Gigi Gryce) - 7:37
2. "Little Miss" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin) - 4:28
3. "Israel" (Johnny Carisi) - 3:53
4. "What Next?" - 3:20
5. "Moving" - 5:03
6. "Blue Brass Groove" (Nat Adderley, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) - 5:39
7. "Accents" - 5:40
8. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 4:06

• Recorded in New York City on March 23 & 27, 1959

Personnel

• • Nat Adderley – cornet Slide Hampton - tuba (track 1), trombone (tracks 2-7)
• Wynton Kelly - piano
• Sam Jones - bass (tracks 2-8), cello (track 1)
• Laymon Jackson - bass (track 1), tuba (tracks 2-8)
• Albert Heath - drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/discography-1959/#590323 Riverside Records discography
2. Allmusic Review
3. Book: Cook, Richard. Richard Cook (journalist). Brian Morton. Brian Morton (Scottish writer). The Penguin Guide to Jazz. 1992. 8th. 2006. Penguin. London. 978-0-141-02327-4. 11.