Blue Word Information is ready to launch Freddie Redd’s 1960 album Shades of Redd on vinyl. The second Blue Word recording from the arduous bop pianist and composer options Jackie McLean on alto saxophone, Tina Brooks on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums.
This Blue Word Basic Vinyl Version is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Grey from the unique grasp tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimum. Shades of Redd is scheduled for launch on September 19.
“Shades of Redd, in summary, is part of the continuing self-portrait Freddie Redd is developing as a jazz performer-writer,” wrote Nat Hentoff, co-editor of The Jazz Evaluate, in an essay featured on the album’s again cowl. “The colors are all of the jazz language, and the mixer has made them reflect his own unique view of life on and off the stand.”
Shades of Redd opens with “The Thespian,” a nickname for Redd by Joe Termini, the proprietor of assorted jazz golf equipment in New Yorkers Metropolis. The album contains “Just a Ballad For My Baby,” a romantic tribute to a paramour, the Spanish-tinged “Olé,” and “Shadows,” an introspective ballad. The tune “Melanie” is known as after the new child child of an in depth buddy. “It sounded happy to me,” mentioned Redd. “And that’s why I thought it fitted a child.”
Redd made his Blue Word debut in 1960 because the composer of the rating for The Connection, Jack Gelber’s 1959 Off-Broadway play depicting the lives of heroin-addicted musicians in New York. Redd and McLean each appeared within the play. Redd’s soundtrack, The Music From “The Connection,” was later used within the movie adaptation of the play directed by Shirley Clarke.
Redd recorded one other album’s price of fabric in 1961, however the tapes had been shelved till 1988 when it was lastly launched as Redd’s Blues.
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