Something Personal
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Something Personal is an album by American jazz pianist Jack Wilson
featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note
label in 1966.
awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "this album is an excellent showcase for the often-overlooked Jack Wilson".
Jack Wilson (jazz pianist)
Jack Wilson was an American jazz pianist and composer.-Early life:Wilson was born in Chicago on August 3, 1936, moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana at age seven. From 1949-54, he studied piano with Carl Atkinson at the Fort Wayne College of Music...
featuring performances recorded and released on the Blue Note
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
label in 1966.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott YanowScott Yanow
Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...
awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "this album is an excellent showcase for the often-overlooked Jack Wilson".
Track listing
- All compositions by Jack Wilson except as indicated
- "Most Unusual Woman" - 6:50
- "The Sphinx" (Ornette ColemanOrnette ColemanOrnette Coleman is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s....
) - 5:04 - "Shosh" - 8:56
- "Serenata" (Leroy AndersonLeroy AndersonLeroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler...
) - 6:55 - "Harbor Freeway 5 P.M." - 7:09
- "C.F.D." - 4:55
- "One and Four" [aka. "Mr. Day"] (John ColtraneJohn ColtraneJohn William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...
) - 4:51 Bonus track on CD reissue- Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 9 (tracks 4, 6 & 7) and August 10 (tracks 1-3 & 5), 1966
Personnel
- Jack WilsonJack Wilson (jazz pianist)Jack Wilson was an American jazz pianist and composer.-Early life:Wilson was born in Chicago on August 3, 1936, moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana at age seven. From 1949-54, he studied piano with Carl Atkinson at the Fort Wayne College of Music...
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- bassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2... - Varney Barlow - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....