Jazz arrangements nelson riddle pdf5/24/2023 ![]() But, irritatingly, the piano album is spliced with run-of-the-mill commercial vocals. Nat’s great success deprived jazz fans of his great keyboard talent. The piano playing, with fine rhythm section, is energetic and imaginative, despite being conceived with the idea of not being too complex for the general public… It shows us what we lost. CD4 includes Nat’s album where he played piano (no vocals) with Nelson’s orchestra backing. Willie Smith and Juan Tizol lift their chins briefly. Benny Carter, Milt Bernhart, Pete Candoli and Jimmy Rowles are amongst those who tiptoe through without one ever noticing. The large majority of the tracks have strings on board and most of the songs, lovelorn ballads to the fore, are unknown to me. In such a huge world of sweeping strings Harry Edison’s “pop-ups” are vanishingly few. Not so good – the music achieves its target to perfection, bringing the words “glib” and “facile” to mind. The 40-page booklet is excellent, easily read, informative and with the text inspired by terrific research (right down to the names of the individuals in the string sections). The box containing all this is robust and very tasteful and the elegant sleeves are similarly well designed. In its idiom the music is perfect Riddle and Cole make the ideal arranging combination. The good things: the Capitol sides seem to be complete (although I’d hate to have to check). This box contains eight CDs that hold 216 tracks by the consummate pair.
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