Featuring his patented four-trombone line-up with Carl Fontana, Urbie Green and Bill Watrous, Winding surrounded himself well with two-handed genius and funk overlord Herbie Hancock, bassist Bob Cranshaw, drummer Grady Tate and guitarist Al Gafa (under the pseudonym "Buzzy Bavarian," to hide, perhaps an unusually rock-ish quality he lays down here).
Winding traverses fast takes of the Hancock hits "Cantaloupe Island" and "Blind Man, Blind Man" and Gafa's surprisingly funky title track."
quoth Doug Payne, who fails to mention an irresistible version of Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder". The groove quotient is pretty high on allmost all tracks here, not exactly what one might expect from a Kai Winding album.
Doug Payne about Winding's time with Verve: "When Creed Taylor accepted a lucrative offer from MGM to head the jazz division of their record label, Verve, Kai Winding was invited too. Winding recorded a dozen albums and 4 non-LP 45-rpm records with Creed Taylor during his stay at the label (1961-67). The music Winding made during this time is well worth hearing and, surprisingly, uncharacteristic of his recordings before or after…."
Never out on cd, it seems. I've been looking for a stereo vinyl for quite a while, but to no avail. So i finally went with this still sealed mono copy.
Kai Winding: Dirty Dog
Verve Records V-8661
US, 1966
A1 Dirty Dog (Al Gafa) 3:38
A2 Sunrise, Sunset (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) 5:50
A3 Cantalupe Island (Herbie Hancock) 5:41
B1 Blindman, Blindman (Herbie Hancock) 4:42
B2 Something You Got (Chris Kenner) 5:06
B3 The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) 5:36
Kai Winding (tb, arr, cond); Carl Fontana, Urbie Green, Bill Watrous (tb); Herbie Hancock (p); Al Gafa (as "Buzzy Bavarian") (el-g); Bob Cranshaw (el-b); Grady Tate (d)
Recorded at A&R Recording Studio; New York City: March 28 and April 1, 1966
8 comments:
downloading now, thanks for keeping the musical vibes in circulation with your blog, a
Love Kai. Thanx.............
nice cool version of lee morgan's tune! thanks, looking out for lissening to the whole thing [:-)
peace, E-mile
(P.S. - new to me!)
somehow kai winding and funky don't sound right together..thanks
You're in for a surprise, anon'n'non ;-)
I don't know about anyone else but I think this album is a bona fide 60's masterpiece. The lineup is incredible and the result of this much talent attacking these funky, rockin' tunes is that the fun just drips off of this platter. What great arrangements and solos too! I'm gonna coin a phrase here in honor of this album: It's "fun-key", which means it's funky and fun in any key! It's fairly short at about 30 mins. total but like all great albums, it feels like it's over in about 10. I love that Gafa uses a pseudonym as well. Dang. Great stuff! Thank you LPR!
Haha, Kris, i guess you're fun-key, too!
Merci beaucoup Le Porc Rouge, album et rip exelents.
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