(Big Band, Hard Bop, Post-Bop) Gerald Wilson - Коллекция - 1954-2011 (19 альбомов), MP3, 192-320 kbps

Оркестр известного американского аранжировщика и композитора Джеральда Уилсона (Gerald Wilson Orchestra) просуществовал очень долго, несколько десятилетий. Возможно, он не принадлежал к числу наиболее известных американских биг-бендов, но как бы то ни было этот оркестр всегда занимал достойное место на американской джазовой сцене.
Джеральд Уилсон родился в 1918 году. Его музыкальные занятия начались с фортепиано, а на трубу, которая стала его главным инструментом в дальнейшем, он перешел, учась в колледже. С 1939 по 1942 годы Уилсон работал в качестве трубача и аранжировщика в одном из лучших свинговых биг-бендов – оркестре Джимми Лансфорда (Jimmie Lunceford). Затем служил в военно-морском флоте, а в 1944 году у него появился собственный биг-бенд.
Во второй половине 40-х годов стало ясно, что Джеральд Уилсон – незаурядный аранжировщик, поскольку с 1947 года он начинает писать аранжировки для оркестра Дюка Эллингтона (Duke Ellington), а в конце 40-х годов также начинает писать аранжировки для Каунта Бейси (Basie William "Count") и Диззи Гиллеспи (Dizzy Gillespie).
Оркестр Уилсона всегда базировался в Лос-Анджелесе. В этом коллективе играли многие знаменитые представители западного побережья США. Уилсон был музыкальным руководителем многочисленных записей, сотрудничал с бесчисленным множеством музыкантов – инструменталистов и вокалистов. А с середины 70-х он расширил свой профессиональный диапазон, начав вести джазовую программу на радио. Приблизительно в то же самое время он стал читать курс истории джаза в университете Лос-Анджелеса. Как трубач, Джеральд Уилсон не оставил яркого следа в истории джаза, но, безусловно, вошел в историю этого искусства как яркий аранжировщик. Его аранжировки всегда узнаваемы. Принято считать, что в этой сфере он чем-то напоминает Тэда Джонса (Thad Jones).

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From time to time, Gerald Wilson seems like one of Los Angeles' better-kept secrets, an unusually skillful, imaginative, and charismatic bandleader who hasn't received his due outside the West Coast. His arrangements have distinctive, often complex voicings and harmonies, rooted in swing and bop, yet always forward-looking and energetic in tone. He likes to play around with structures, which contributes to the restless quality in much of his music, and being a bullfight aficionado, he was one of the first arrangers to make use of Spanish influences. He has been consistently able to attract top-rank musicians to his bands, who play with immaculate precision and brio for the flamboyantly gesticulating maestro. Upon moving from Memphis to Detroit with his family in 1932, Wilson studied music in high school and played with the Plantation Music Orchestra before undergoing the formative experience of his life, working with the Jimmie Lunceford band from 1939 to 1942. Replacing Sy Oliver as arranger, conductor, and trumpet soloist, Wilson learned his craft in the Lunceford band, after which he took off for Los Angeles to play with the bands of Les Hite, Benny Carter, and Willie Smith. Wilson organized his first big band in 1944, which sported an intriguing blend of swing and bop and featured musicians like Melba Liston and Snooky Young. But it only lasted three years, and after playing for Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie in 1947 and 1948, Wilson quit the music business for a while to try his hand in the grocery trade. After a tentative return as a bandleader in 1952, it took awhile for him to gradually ease his way back into jazz full-time; he even made appearances as a TV actor.
In 1961, after experimenting with a workshop band for four years, Wilson formed a new orchestra which made a string of successful albums for the Pacific Jazz label throughout the '60s, featuring soloists like Harold Land, Teddy Edwards, Bud Shank, Jack Wilson, and Joe Pass. One tune that he wrote for the Moment of Truth album, "Viva Tirado" (later reprised on Live and Swinging) became a surprise hit single for the Latin rock group El Chicano in 1970. He scored films and TV programs, worked as an arranger for recordings by singers such as Al Hibbler, Bobby Darin, and Johnny Hartman, contributed arrangements to the Duke Ellington band, and wrote music for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He also started a series of hugely entertaining and informative classes in jazz history at California State University, Northridge (then San Fernando Valley State College) in 1970, moving them to UCLA in 1992, and had his own radio program on L.A.'s KBCA-FM from 1969 to 1976.
Wilson continued to lead big bands off and on through the '80s and '90s, as well as running the orchestra for Redd Foxx's NBC shows and serving as one of the Los Angeles jazz scene's more revered elder statesmen. In 1995, he commemorated more than half-a-century as a leader by releasing State Street Sweet, a vigorous tribute to the durability of his work, and scoring a solid hit at the Playboy Jazz Festival. In 1996, Wilson's life's work was archived by the Library of Congress, and in 1997 he completed Theme for Monterey, a piece commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival. In 2003 he recorded New York, New Sound, his debut for Mack Avenue Records, which went on receive a Grammy nomination in the "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" category. Several albums for Mack Avenue followed with In My Time in 2005, Monterey Moods in 2007, and Detroit in 2009. In 2011, Wilson released his fifth Mack Avenue album, the classical-themed Legacy.

Gerald Wilson - Big Band Modern
Год издания диска: 1954
Продолжительность: 67:10
Треклист:
01. Algerian Fantasy (6:04)
02. Bull Fighter (2:50)
03. Lotus Land (5:50)
04. Theme (2:42)
05. Mambo Mexicano (4:20)
06. Black Rose (3:23)
07. Romance (3:12)
08. Since We Said Goodbye (2:55)
09. Hollywood Freeway (5:46)
10. Sea Breeze (4:08)
11. Nice Work If You Can Get It (2:59)
12. Indiana (4:03)
13. It Had to Be You (1:54)
14. Out of Nowhere (4:30)
15. Hollywood Freeway (12:34)

Gerald Wilson - You Better Believe It!
#777Год издания диска: 1961
Продолжительность: 34:52
Треклист:
01. Blues for Yna Yna (6:53)
02. Jeri (3:45)
03. Moody Blue (3:09)
04. Straight Up and Down (4:45)
05. The Wailer (7:23)
06. You Better Believe It (5:20)
07. Yvette (3:37)

Gerald Wilson - Portraits
#777Год издания диска: 1964
Продолжительность: 37:55
Треклист:
01. So What (5:58)
02. 'Round Midnight (5:13)
03. Paco (6:23)
04. Ravi (6:02)
05. Aram (3:48)
06. Eric (3:16)
07. Caprichos (7:15)

Gerald Wilson - Feelin' Kinda Blues
#777Год издания диска: 1965
Продолжительность: 34:34
Треклист:
01. When I'm Feelin' Kinda Blue (3:38)
02. Freddy Freeloader (4:09)
03. Do Anything You Wanna (2:20)
04. Yesterday (2:21)
05. Watermelon Man (4:27)
06. Yeh Yeh (2:33)
07. One on the House (4:33)
08. I Got You (2:46)
09. I Concentrate on You (4:53)
10. Well Son Shuffle (2:54)

Gerald Wilson - On Stage
#777Год издания диска: 1965
Продолжительность: 38:48
Треклист:
01. Los Moros de Espana (3:09)
02. Who Can I Turn To (3:01)
03. Ricardo (4:25)
04. Musette (2:36)
05. In the Limelight (5:53)
06. Lighthouse Blues (7:25)
07. El Viti (4:03)
08. Lately (3:45)
09. Perdido (4:31)

Gerald Wilson - California Soul
#777Год издания диска: 1968
Продолжительность: 39:46
Треклист:
01. California Soul (4:10)
02. Light My Fire (5:05)
03. Channel Island (5:08)
04. Lullaby from 'Rosemary's Baby' (2:53)
05. Sunshine of Your Love (2:55)
06. Russian River (5:31)
07. Yesterlove (4:02)
08. Down Here on the Ground (5:47)
09. El Presidente (4:15)

Gerald Wilson - Everywhere
#777Год издания диска: 1968
Продолжительность: 33:50
Треклист:
01. Everywhere (4:45)
02. Out of This World (6:10)
03. Pretty Polly (2:43)
04. M. Capetillo (3:00)
05. Little Bit of Soul (4:18)
06. Do I Love You? (3:12)
07. Del Oilvar (4:21)
08. Mini Waltz (5:21)

Gerald Wilson - Eternal Equinox
#777Год издания диска: 1969
Продолжительность: 32:38
Треклист:
01. Equinox (4:58)
02. Aquarius (3:03)
03. Pisces (4:09)
04. Scorpio Rising (3:38)
05. Celestial Soul (4:23)
06. Baby, Baby Don't Cry (3:03)
07. You, Me and Now (3:56)
08. Bluesnee (5:28)

Gerald Wilson - Moment of Truth
#777Год издания диска: 1989
Продолжительность: 40:35
Треклист:
01. Viva Tirado (5:48)
02. Moment of Truth (4:27)
03. Patterns (5:57)
04. Terri (2:58)
05. Nancy Jo (2:41)
06. Milestones (5:41)
07. Latino (5:07)
08. Josephina (4:30)
09. Emerge (3:26)

Gerald Wilson - Suite Memories: Reflections on a Jazz Journey
#777Год издания диска: 1996
Продолжительность: CD1 - 72:39; CD2 - 70:55
Треклист:
CD1:
01. My First Baton (0:59)
02. Shelby Mississippi (3:42)
03. Hero of Manassas High (3:43)
04. A Telegram (3:55)
05. This Band's Too Good (5:43)
06. The Lunceford Arrangers (3:30)
07. Getting a Raise Crunch Time (3:44)
08. My First Recorded Solo (1:28)
09. Lunceford Special (Excerpt) (0:32)
10. Two Tickets Please (3:39)
11. In the Navy (6:31)
12. Getting Started (3:25)
13. Hittin' the Road (3:57)
14. On Top (3:00)
15. On the Cutting Edge (2:19)
16. Groovin' High (3:02)
17. Too Soon (1:11)
18. A Phone Call (1:13)
19. To Your Credit (6:05)
20. Don't Be Late (2:29)
21. Listening to the Radio (3:15)
22. My Guiding Light (1:55)
23. Jimmy Blanton (3:22)
CD2:
01. Meeting Basie (3:17)
02. Joining the Band (4:00)
03. At Basie's Place (2:53)
04. You're Home Now (1:00)
05. The All-American Rhythm Section (3:01)
06. Benny Carter (6:15)
07. Dizzy Gillespie (4:48)
08. Billie Holiday (6:27)
09. In the Front Door (1:17)
10. Martin Luther King Benefit (1:54)
11. Pacific Jazz (3:36)
12. Al Hirt (3:47)
13. KBCA (3:13)
14. Music Center Commission (4:10)
15. Paul Gonsalves (2:38)
16. Tadd Dameron (2:23)
17. Eric Dolphy (2:50)
18. Phil Moore (3:36)
19. Melba Liston (1:28)
20. Clark Terry (1:50)
21. Harry 'Sweets' Edison (1:16)
22. Why I Gave Up the Trumpet (1:15)
23. Reflections (2:12)
24. My Band Philosophy (1:49)
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Gerald Wilson - Chronological Classics: 1945-1946
#777Год издания диска: 1997
Продолжительность: 62:23
Треклист:
01. Moon Rise (3:25)
02. Top of the Hill (3:13)
03. Synthetic Joe (3:23)
04. Puerto Rican Breakdown (3:10)
05. Just One of Those Things (2:44)
06. Just Give Me a Man (3:09)
07. Yenta (3:20)
08. Come Sunday (3:09)
09. Love Me a Long, Long Time (2:54)
10. I Don't Know What That Is (3:15)
11. Groovin' High (3:09)
12. I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues (3:15)
13. You Better Change Your Way of Lovin' (3:14)
14. Skip the Gutter (2:55)
15. I'll String Along with You (2:59)
16. Ain't It a Drag (3:04)
17. Cruisin' with Cab (3:13)
18. One O'Clock Jump (2:51)
19. Warm Mood (3:04)
20. Pammy (2:57)

Gerald Wilson - Theme for Monterey
#777Год издания диска: 1998
Продолжительность: 63:30
Треклист:
01. Theme for Monterey: Romance (6:31)
02. Theme for Monterey: Lyons' Roar (12:20)
03. Theme for Monterey: Lone Cypress (9:32)
04. Theme for Monterey: Spanish Bay (8:51)
05. Theme for Monterey: Cooking on Cannery Row (6:54)
06. Summertime (13:30)
07. Anthropology (5:52)

Gerald Wilson - The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings
#777Год издания диска: 2000
Продолжительность: CD1 - 75:11; CD2 - 76:45; CD3 - 72:51; CD4 - 74:28; CD5 - 72:20
Треклист:
CD1:
01. Blues for Yna Yna (6:53)
02. Jeri (3:45)
03. Moody Blue (3:09)
04. Straight Up and Down (4:45)
05. The Wailer (7:24)
06. You Better Believe It (5:20)
07. Yvette (3:37)
08. Viva Tirado (5:45)
09. Moment of Truth (4:23)
10. Patterns (5:58)
11. Teri (2:55)
12. Nancy Jo (2:41)
13. Milestones (5:35)
14. Latino (5:04)
15. Josefina (4:32)
16. Emerge (3:25)
CD2:
01. So What (5:58)
02. Caprichos (7:03)
03. Paco (6:24)
04. Ravi (5:58)
05. Aram (3:48)
06. 'Round Midnight (5:13)
07. Eric (3:17)
08. Los Moros de Espana (3:10)
09. Who Can I Turn To (3:02)
10. Ricardo (4:28)
11. Musette (2:38)
12. In the Limelight (5:54)
13. Lighthouse Blues (7:29)
14. El Viti (4:05)
15. Lately (3:47)
16. Perdido (4:31)
CD3:
01. When I'm Feeling Kinda Blue (3:47)
02. Freddie Freeloader (4:16)
03. Do Anything You Wanna (2:26)
04. Yesterday (2:27)
05. Watermelon Man (6:10)
06. Yeh Yeh (2:38)
07. One on the House (4:41)
08. I Got You (I Feel Good) (2:52)
09. I Concentrate on You (5:08)
10. Well Son Shuffle (3:00)
11. The Golden Sword (3:16)
12. Man of La Mancha (2:21)
13. The Breeze and I (2:24)
14. Carlos (5:30)
15. Chanson du Feu Follet (Song of the Mad Fire) (4:09)
16. Mi Corazon (My Heart) (3:05)
17. Blues Latinese (4:38)
18. The Feather (4:17)
19. La Mentira (The Lie) (2:07)
20. The Serpent (3:39)
CD4:
01. Paper Man (7:32)
02. I Should Care (3:54)
03. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (4:33)
04. The 'IT's' Where It's At (5:49)
05. Blues for a Scorpio (4:39)
06. L'il Darlin' (5:36)
07. Misty (3:20)
08. Viva Tirado (8:09)
09. Everywhere (4:22)
10. Out of This World (5:39)
11. Pretty Polly (2:33)
12. M. Capetillo (2:45)
13. Little Bit of Soul (3:55)
14. Do I Love You (Because You're Beautiful)? (2:56)
15. Del Olivar (3:57)
16. Mini Waltz (4:49)
CD5:
01. California Soul (4:11)
02. Light My Fire (5:05)
03. Channel Island (5:06)
04. Lullaby from 'Rosemary's Baby' (2:54)
05. Sunshine of Your Love (2:54)
06. Russian River (5:28)
07. Yesterlove (4:02)
08. Down Here on the Ground (5:47)
09. El Presidente (4:15)
10. Equinox (4:58)
11. Aquarius (3:03)
12. Pisces (4:09)
13. Scorpio Rising (3:38)
14. Celestial Soul (4:23)
15. Baby, Baby Don't Cry (3:03)
16. You, Me and Now (3:56)
17. Bluesnee (5:28)

Gerald Wilson - New York, New Sound
#777Год издания диска: 2003
Продолжительность: 76:22
Треклист:
01. Milestones (7:29)
02. Blues for the Count (9:56)
03. Equinox (6:43)
04. Viva Tirado (9:15)
05. Teri (3:37)
06. Blues for Yna Yna (8:09)
07. Theme for Monterey (14:53)
08. M Capetillo (4:54)
09. Josefina (5:17)
10. Nancy Jo (6:09)

Gerald Wilson - In My Time
#777Год издания диска: 2005
Продолжительность: 75:18
Треклист:
01. Sax Chase (10:23)
02. The Diminished Triangle: Dorian (7:28)
03. The Diminished Triangle: Ray's Vision at the U (4:26)
04. The Diminished Triangle: Blues for Manhattan (8:48)
05. Lomelin (7:46)
06. A.E.N (10:27)
07. Musette (5:49)
08. So What (11:10)
09. Love for Sale (5:06)
10. Jeri (3:55)

Gerald Wilson - The Artist Selects
#777Год издания диска: 2005
Продолжительность: 75:04
Треклист:
01. Blues for Yna Yna (6:53)
02. Jeri (3:45)
03. Moody Blue (3:09)
04. Nancy Jo (2:40)
05. Teri (2:55)
06. Viva Tirado (5:44)
07. Milestones (5:33)
08. Josefina (4:32)
09. Paco (6:24)
10. 'Round Midnight (5:13)
11. Eric (3:16)
12. Lighthouse Blues (7:29)
13. El Viti (4:05)
14. Carlos (5:30)
15. The Feather (from 'The Teotihuacan Suite') (4:17)
16. The Serpent (from 'The Teotihuacan Suite') (3:39)

Gerald Wilson - Monterey Moods
#777Год издания диска: 2007
Продолжительность: 59:48
Треклист:
01. Allegro (6:13)
02. Jazz Swing Waltz (9:10)
03. Ballad (7:10)
04. Latin Swing (11:37)
05. Blues (10:02)
06. Bass Solo (2:27)
07. Hard Swing (1:41)
08. I Concentrate on You (6:01)
09. The Mini Waltz (5:27)

Gerald Wilson - Detroit
#777Год издания диска: 2009
Продолжительность: 62:55
Треклист:
01. Blues on Belle Isle (5:31)
02. Cass Tech (8:48)
03. Detroit (6:41)
04. Miss Gretchen (7:08)
05. Before Motown (7:13)
06. The Detroit River (8:48)
07. Everywhere (12:33)
08. Aram (6:13)

Gerald Wilson - Legacy
#777Год издания диска: 2011
Продолжительность: 50:02
Треклист:
01. Variation on a Theme by Igor Stravinsky (3:35)
02. Virgo (9:59)
03. Variation on Clair de Lune (7:36)
04. Variation on a Theme by Giacomo Puccini (6:21)
05. September Sky (7:06)
06. A Jazz Mecca (2:10)
07. A Night at the El Grotto (3:43)
08. Riffin' at the Regal (1:56)
09. Cubs, Bears, Bulls, and White Sox (3:10)
10. 47th St. Blues (1:07)
11. Blowin' in the Windy City (1:01)
12. A Great Place to Be (2:18)