Fatha Herman

Artist: Woody Herman
Label: Hindsight Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 014921027428
EAN: 0014921027428
ASIN: B00003XAHR

Release Date: 1999-12-07

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Tracks:

Fire Dance
FM
Duke Ellington's 'Sound Of Love'
Woodchopper's Ball
Sunrise Lady
Pavane
I've Got News For You
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Isn't She Lovely
Kid Charlemagne

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Customer Reviews:

great cd.......2004-01-26

I think this is a great rerelease of a 70's album he had. I recommend it to any big band jazz buff or woody herman fan. I have been waiting a long time for this cd. Well worth the search.

Double-tonguing on 2-octave intervals.......2001-10-09

My high school invited Allen Vizzutti to perform with us in successive years; we opened his portion of our first jazz band concert with "Fire Dance". If memory serves, this was a Jeff Tyzik composition & arrangement, one of my first tastes of jazz heavily flavored with Latin percussion. Much of my later affinity for both chile verde and Stan Kenton's "Cuban Fire" can be traced to this song!

Fire Dance nearly killed our drummer (and the rest of the band). But Vizzutti's play was the single most impressive display of brass virtuosity I have witnessed to date. The cadenza at the end of the song still kills me to hear: it goes on through some 2 minutes of circular breathing, ridiculous range and - honest to God - double-tonguing through 2 octaves between the "tu" and the "ku".

Buy this if only for the one track, but keep it for Pavane and others. I have long since lost my vinyl copy of "Road Father" but remember it as something I played to death, like Toshiko Akiyoshi's "Tales of a Courtesan" and Thad Jones-Mel Lewis' "Greetings and Salutations". Buy it and a tank of oxygen for each listen!

Footnote: Vizzutti's cadenza was about twice as long when he played with us. We timed him at something like two minutes between breath pauses (circular breathing extraordinaire). Still looking for a master to digitize from that performance (Gerry Knipfel, where are you?)

A must for trumpet players.......2001-09-24

This album rates 5 stars for Fire Dance alone. If you play trumpet, listen to this and weep. Absolutely amazing!

Oh Yea !.......2000-08-07

Oh Yea! buy this CD. I was blown away by THIS band when I was a high school punk & saw them play in the school gym. In college I played some of those same "Road Father" arrangments..... 20 some years later the shine has'nt worn off & the band - recording are still great... Oh yea....buy it

Waited 10 years for this on CD!.......2000-02-10

This is one of the finest big band albums ever done! When this came out as an audiophile recording originally it blew me away! I long ago wore out the vinyl originally titled "ROAD FATHER". As CD reissues of all the great recordings eventually came out, I waited for this one...to no avail until now! It is lovingly remastered with extra tracks and sounds even better than the direct-to-disc vinyl did when brand new! Three words...BUY THIS DISC! You won't stop playing it!

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