Release Date: 18 November 2022
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 4
Barcode: 8436559469296
Genres: Jazz
Description
This wonderful 80-track edition compiles all existing recordings by Lennie Niehaus as a leader from his early years, originally issued on six Contemporary and one EmArcy LPs. The recordings here are presented for the very first time ever on a single set and in chronological order. After 1957, Niehaus didn't record another jazz album under his own name until 1989.
Born in 1929 and now 86 years old, Lennie Niehaus complemented his talents as an alto saxophonist with those of an arranger and composer, becoming a well-known figure on the West Coast jazz scene. After playing with the Stan Kenton big band, and various other jazz bands on the West Coast, Niehaus devoted himself to arranging and composing for motion pictures, including several produced by Clint Eastwood.
As a bonus, we have included three small group tracks that constitute Niehaus' only collaborations with Howard Rumsey, as well as a complete album by conductor and arranger Duane Tatro, again in a small group format that features Niehaus on alto on most tracks.
Tracklisting
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Chet Baker
Harry James
Nina Simone
Coleman Hawkins
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Vinsent Planjer
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Sidney Bechet
Les DeMerle Sound 67
Johnny Griffin Quartet
Helveticus: Humair/Blaser/Kanzig
