Louis Smith Quintet w/Vincent Herring: I Waited For You

Straightahead / Mainstream Jazz
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Debiutancki album "Here Comes Louis Smith" urodzonego w 1931 roku trębacza został nagrany w 1958 roku i wydała go szacowna Blue Note Records. W tym samym roku nagrał jeszcze "Smithville", także dla Blue Note Records. Krótko po ich nagraniu wycofał się z intensywnego życia muzycznego i został wykładowcą muzyki. Ma na swoim koncie występy między innymi z Milesem Davisem (jako jeden z nielicznych trębaczy), Sonny Stittem, Philly Joe Jonesem, czy Dizzy Gillespiem. W 1958 roku, zanim całkowicie dał się wciągnąć w pracę na Uniwersytecie w Michigan, zdążył jeszcze wziąć udział w kilku sesjach nagraniowych. By wymienić "Blue Lights" Kenny'ego Burrella i koncertowych płytach Horace Silvera. Do studia nagraniowego Louis Smith powrócił w latach siedemdziesiątych i dziewięćdziesiątych nagrywając kilka albumów dla duńskiej oficyny SteepleChase. Z tego właśnie okresu pochodzi album "I Waited For You", który nagrany został w listopadzie 1995 roku z młodym lwem jazzu - saksofonistą Vincentem Herringiem i sprawdzonym trio - Richard Wyands za fortepianem, Dennis Irwin na kontrabasie i za perkusją Kenny Washington.

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Louis Smith born on May 20, 1931 in Memphis, Tennessee. He played with visiting musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thad Jones and Billy Mitchell, before going on to play with Sonny Stitt, Count Basie and Al. McKibbon, Cannonball Adderley, Percy Heath, Philly Joe Jones, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Kenny Dorham and Zoot Sims.
Smith decided to forgo being a full-time musician to take a music teaching job at Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School. During this time he continued playing jazz in clubs, eventually going on to record two albums for Blue Note Records.
Smith's first session as a leader "Here Comes Louis Smith" (1957), originally recorded for the Boston-based Transition Records, featured Cannonball Adderley (then under contract to Mercury) playing under the pseudonym "Buckshot La Funke", Tommy Flanagan, Duke Jordan, Art. Taylor and Doug Watkins. He also replaced Donald Byrd for Horace Silver's Live at the Newport 1958 set. His playing on the set was one of his best efforts and was described by one critic as "monstrous". He was a prolific composer and successful band director leaving Booker T. Washington to become director of the Jazz Ensemble at the University of Michigan and a teacher in Ann Arbor's public school system. He later recorded for the SteepleChase label.
His cousin Booker Little was also a trumpeter.
As a leader he made two albums on Blue Note Records - "Here Comes Louis Smith" (Blue Note, 1958) and "Smithville" (Blue Note, 1958) and 12 on SteepleChase - "Just Friends" (SteepleChase, 1978), "Prancin'" (SteepleChase, 1979), "Ballads for Lulu" (SteepleChase, 1990), "Silvering" (SteepleChase, 1994), "Strike up the Band" (SteepleChase, 1994), "The Very Thought of You" (SteepleChase, 1995), "I Waited for You" (SteepleChase, 1996), "There Goes My Heart" (SteepleChase, 1997), "Once in a While" (SteepleChase, 2000), "Soon" (SteepleChase, 2000), "The Bopsmith" (SteepleChase, 2001), "Louisville" (SteepleChase, 2004)
Smith died on August 20, 2016, at age 85.

muzycy:
Louis Smith: trumpet
Vincent Herring: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Richard Wyands: piano
Dennis Irwin: bass
Kenny Washington: drums

utwory:
1. Dig 6:05
2. Solar 6:16
3. I Waited for You 10:12
4. Walkin' 6:07
5. Half Nelson 7:10
6. Vierd Blues 7:23
7. Milestones 8:40
8. Bye Bye Blackbird 12:14

total time - 64:07
wydano: 1996
nagrano: Recorded November 1995