Jazz LP “GEORGE RUSSELL SEXTET IN K.C.” on DECCA pink promo DG orig NM HEAR

$

39

Artist:   GEORGE RUSSELL SEXTET

Title:   “George Russell Sextet in K.C.”

Label:   DECCA ~ DL 4183.   Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Labels are pink promotional with black text. 

Year:   1961

Personnel:

Don Ellis – trumpet

Dave Baker – trombone

Dave Young – tenor sax

George Russell – piano

Chuck Israels – bass

Joe Hunt – drums.

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A solid “10” out of 10.

JACKET:   Jacket is nice VG+ with no major issues.   Front artwork has some light ring wear; otherwise clean and bright.  Seams are nice; just a bit of chipping at the bottom of the spine.  Reverse has darkened a bit with age, and has date printed at the bottom corner.  No other writing or stickers.  Overall a very nice jacket to accompany the superb disc.

Track Listing:

Side One:   

• War Gewessen
• Rhymes
• Lunacy

Side Two:   

• Sandu
• Tune Up
• Theme

Review:

“George Russell was at a creative peak in the early '60s as he recorded one memorable small-group session after another.  The pianist and composer wrote only one of the six songs on this 1961 session, while tackling two imaginative charts (the turbulent "War Gewessen" and the amusing Latin-flavored "Lunacy") by the young trombonist Dave Baker, who was a student of Russell's and would later become an important jazz educator in his own right.  Carla Bley, who had also studied with Russell, composed "Rhymes," whose initial vamp suggests Oliver Nelson's "Stolen Moments," though the haunting unison theme by Baker and trumpeter Don Ellis takes it in a completely different direction.  The leader's scoring of Clifford Brown's "Sandu" allows plenty of blowing space for the band, with a typically economical piano solo by Russell.  His heated arrangement of Miles Davis' "Tune Up" is simply spectacular.  Liner note writer Leonard Feather hilariously describes Russell's "Theme" as "Every Man for Himself in F Minor." This rewarding Decca LP has long been unavailable and expect to pay a premium price if you are fortunate enough to run across a copy of it.” 

(courtesy Ken Dryden, allmusic.com.)

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