5 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE (1978)
“Tribute is a brilliant mixture of arranged and free jazz, with the strength of the compositions providing a firm foundation.”
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Heiner Stadler's Tribute to Bird and Monk, featuring a sextet of cornetist Thad Jones, tenor saxophonist George Adams, trombonist George Lewis, pianist Stanley Cowell, bassist Reggie Workman, and drummer Lenny White, takes six compositions by Charlie Parker and Thelonius Monk as reimagined by Stadler with out-of-the-box improvisations by some of New York's greatest instrumentalists of the 1970s and remixes them to modern standards by the brilliant engineer Malcom Addey. The result is a critically acclaimed tribute that sounds as fresh and daring today as when it was originally released.
PERSONNEL:
THAD JONES, cornet
GEORGE ADAMS, enor sax
GEORGE LEWIS, trombone
STANLEY COWELL, piano
REGGIE WORKMAN, bass
LENNY WHITE, drums
Special Guests:
CECIL BRIDGEWATER, trumpet
WARREN SMITH, timpani
New York, January 17, 18, 19 & 25, 1978
(Originally Tomato)
TRACKS:
01. Air Conditioning
02. Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
03. Au Privave
04. Straight No Chaser
05. Misterioso
06. Perhaps