Tony Fruscella

Tony Fruscella (Limited Edition) (JAZZ)

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Tony Fruscella (Limited Edition)

Tony Fruscella

Waxtime 500

8436559465243

LPS 155872

JAZZ

1

LP 16,98 €

EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES

INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK

Tony Fruscella released only one record as a leader during his lifetime, the present 1955 LP on Atlantic Records. Several reissues of live material and studio outtakes followed his death. His career became diluted into oblivion upon recording that album, and he died of cirrhosis of the liver on August 14, 1969 at the age of 42. As a musician, Tony Fruscella followed an intermediate path between Bop (Dizzy Gillespie) and Cool (Miles Davis), a style later made popular by Chet Baker. His dense, muted, velvety sound expressed a sense of poetry full of “literary” references, in the low and medium registers, of a rich variety of tonalities that made his solos sensual, deep and somewhat melancholy. That sound is vividly portrayed in the present LP.


PERSONNEL;

TONY FRUSCELLA, trumpet
ALLEN EAGER, tenor sax
BILL TRIGLIA, piano
BILL ANTHONY, bass
JUNIOR BRADLEY, drums

On A2 & B1 only add:
CHAUNCEY WELSCH, trombone
DANNY BANK, baritone sax

New York, March 29 (A2 & B1) and April 1 (A1, A3-A4 & B2-B5), 1955.

*BONUS TRACK:
Tony Fruscella (tp), Chick Maures (as), Bill Triglia (p),
Red Mitchell (b), Dave Troy (d). New York, December 10, 1948.

SIDE A:
01 I’LL BE SEEING YOU
02 MUY
03 METROPOLITAN BLUES
04 RAINTREE COUNTY
05 OUT OF NOWHERE *

SIDE B:
01 SALT
02 HIS MASTER’S VOICE
03 OLD HAT
04 BLUE SERENADE
05 LET’S PLAY THE BLUES