In Nov 2011, Grant Jackson of NPR wrote : Albert Preston Dailey was born June 16, 1939, in Baltimore, Md. Dailey began piano studies at a young age, and by the mid-'50s was playing in the Baltimore Royal Theater's house band; he went on to attend Morgan State University and the Peabody Conservatory in the late '50s. Dailey toured with vocalist Damita Jo from 1960 to 1963, then led a trio at Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., before moving to New York in 1964. He began working with cutting-edge musicians, including recording dates with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, and in 1967 he joined Woody Herman at the Monterey Jazz Festival. He also was a member of the first lineup of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the early '70s, he worked with tenor-sax men Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz, the latter of whom had a deep admiration for Dailey's hypnotic styling and shimmering harmonies. Other acclaimed artists, including alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp, came calling, as well. Dailey continued working into the early '80s, recording with Getz on his 1983 album Poetry, and with Buddy De Franco. Though sorely under-appreciated and underrated in his lifetime, Al Dailey was a blossoming composer and an intense yet melodic soloist. His broad, impressionistic chordal structures and searching melodic lines were on par with the work of other modern jazz pianists such as Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans. Al Dailey died of pneumonia in 1984.
@vova47
2 жыл бұрын
Albert Dailey - a great, very underrated and under recognised master. Thank you for sharing this!
@Horsemam3190
3 ай бұрын
From an interview with Getz, by Mel Martin, published in Saxophone Journal, Winter 1986: MM: When you recorded the Poetry album with Albert Dailey, did you use a minimal number of microphones? SG: We only used two mics. It was recorded in my studio, which I had built on my estate in New York. It is built of all wood with window views out in the country. It has a high ceiling and we used two B & K calibrated mics, one on me and one on the piano. They went directly into a modified Studer two-track. No mixing board was involved. I guess that’s why engineers and boards came into being because musicians forgot how to blend themselves. That’s why so many use monitors now. We used to play so that you had to listen to each other and mix your own thing on the spot. You had to hear everybody more than yourself. Then vocalists would need some reinforcement and that’s when sound boards came in. Symphonies are recorded with two mics and Benny Goodman made all those great records with one or two mics. Musicians used to mix themselves. That has become a lost art. It is and it’s a reflection of their musicianship. Maybe it’s a combination of the use of electrical instruments and playing larger venues. When you record, if you use two mics properly positioned, it will sound like your two ears are in the room with the musicians. There are some engineers who don’t understand how to record acoustic instruments because they want everything to sound as if it’s in your face. MM: Do you generally mic your horn from a distance? SG: I stand far from the mic and I try not to use one if it’s at all possible. Sometimes we mic the piano a little and of course there’s the bass amp. I have to use mics to balance with where the drummer is at. You start with the drums. There are lots of places, however, where I don’t use a mic, like Fat Tuesday’s, Blues Alley, and the Old Keystone Korner. You learn how to project your instrument and think projection. Try to see the corners of the room. You don’t have to play louder, it’s just a certain center to the sound that you can get going through the room. It’s not loudness but sound, and brass vibrating, or resonance without reediness.
@redmondfella
5 жыл бұрын
Masters
@maxbaker7671
4 жыл бұрын
yup.
@jimcoleman2369
3 жыл бұрын
This belongs in the time capsule !!!!
@eeeeeppppp
2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like two virtuosos playing in your living room!
@waterloo618
3 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece. Kinda like the duo with Kenny Barron.
@イッパチ-q1b
Жыл бұрын
This here is showcase of Albert Dailey.
@1GrilledFoot
5 ай бұрын
One of my favorite albums, just puts me in a good mood every time I hear it.
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