Moon Alley

Moon Alley Artist: Tom Harrell Quintet
Label: Criss Cross
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 8712474101825
ASIN: B0000020LI


Release Date: 1994-04-06

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Tracks:

  1. Blues In Six
  2. Change Of Pace
  3. Rapture
  4. Twenty Bar Tune
  5. Open Air
  6. Moon Alley
  7. Scrapple From The Apple
  8. Rapture (Take 1)

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good Tom.......2006-01-06

A nice program of originals by talented trumpet player Tom Harrell. Style is modern mainstrem Jazz with a touch of modal harmonies here and there, like in the opener "Blues in six". All tunes here are from Tom's pen except the Charlie Parker's line "Scrapple from the apple" and a tune by sax player Kenny Garrett ("Change of pace"). This album is from 1986, I was searching for a good record from Tom's discography (I already knew him but I hadn't nothing from him in my collection) and I found this one. It's very good. The band is Tom, Kenny Garrett alto sax and flute (I enjoyed kenny's playing even if he is not among my favourite sax players), Kenny Barron piano, Ray Drummond bass and Ralph Peterson drums. Tom is a technical, bopping and lyrical player at the same time. His sound is very open, very good too. Don't be fooled by the rating, "only" four stars. It is a very consistent date simply I choose to give five stars only to essential recordings and this it's not really essential as a good historic Charlie Parker or Bill Evans album may be. But it is a very good record in its own right that you can buy if you want to listen to some fresh Jazz from a very talented contemporary trumpet player.

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