Composed and arranged by Fred Sturm
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Street Music
Stolen Moments
Composed and arranged by Oliver Nelson, transcribed by Greg Hopkins
Our copy of Stolen Moments is pretty much a straight transcription by the great Greg Hopkins, of Oliver Nelson's famous 1961 version, as it appeared on his landmark album, Blues and the Abstract Truth.
Personnel: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet), Eric Dolphy (alto sax, flute), Oliver Nelson (tenor sax, arranger), George Barrow (baritone saxophone), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), Roy Haynes (drums).
Soloists: Hubbard, Dolphy, Nelson, Evans.
Along with Miles Davis' album Kind Of Blue, Blues and the Abstract Truth (and Stolen Moments in particular) is one of the most commonly cited examples of the "modal jazz" movement in the early sixties. Also, Nelson's solo on this version contains possibly the most famous use of the augmented scale in jazz.
Interestingly, while the piece is best known from Blues and the Abstract Truth, it actually first appeared as The Stolen Moment on the 1960 album Trane Whistle by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, which was largely written and co-arranged by Oliver Nelson.
Sonny's Place
Composed and arranged by Carl Strommen
Sonny's Place is titled in honor of the defunct premier jazz club on Long Island. Commissioned by the Nassau-Suffolk Jazz Band, composer Carl Strommen's original composition features the saxophone section.
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