Name: Brass Attitude
Brand: Concord Jazz
SKU: 41281
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Brass Attitude

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Album: Brass Attitude
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Just Friends Album Version	More Info...	6:00
2)	Waltz For Nicole Album Version	More Info...	6:15
3)	I Love You Album Version	More Info...	4:53
4)	Milk Of The Moon Album Version	More Info...	7:47
5)	Misra-Dhenuka Album Version	More Info...	15:50
6)	Knee Deep In Rio Album Version	More Info...	8:37
7)	Eric And Sandra Album Version	More Info...	5:40
8)	The Lip Album Version	More Info...	7:24
9)	Caruso Album Version	More Info...	3:53

Album: Brass Attitude
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Just Friends Album Version	More Info...	6:00
2)	Waltz For Nicole Album Version	More Info...	6:15
3)	I Love You Album Version	More Info...	4:53
4)	Milk Of The Moon Album Version	More Info...	7:47
5)	Misra-Dhenuka Album Version	More Info...	15:50
6)	Knee Deep In Rio Album Version	More Info...	8:37
7)	Eric And Sandra Album Version	More Info...	5:40
8)	The Lip Album Version	More Info...	7:24
9)	Caruso Album Version	More Info...	3:53

Performer Notes

Full performer name: Maynard Ferguson/Big Bop Nouveau.
Maynard Ferguson/Big Bop Nouveau: Maynard Ferguson (trumpet, flugelhorn); Matt Wallace, Sal Giorgianni (alto & tenor saxophones); Carl Fischer (trumpet, superbone); Frank Greene, Wayne Bergeron (trumpet); Tom Garling (trombone, superbone); Ron Oswanski (piano, keyboards); Paul Thompson (acoustic & electric basses); Dave Throckmorton (drums).
Additional personnel: Denis DiBlasio (vocals, baritone saxophone).
Recorded at Sound Design Studios, Santa Barbara, California from May 26-30, 1998. Includes liner notes by Maynard Ferguson.
Personnel: Maynard Ferguson (trumpet, flugelhorn); Denis DiBlasio (vocals, baritone saxophone); Matt Wallace , Sal Giorgianni (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Wayne Bergeron, Frank Greene, Carl Fischer (trumpet); Tom Garling (trombone); Ron Oswanski (piano, keyboards); Paul Thompson (acoustic bass, electric bass); Paul Thompson (acoustic bass); Paul Thompson (electric bass); Dave Throckmorton (drums).
Audio Mixers: Dominic Camardella; Maynard Ferguson; Tom Garling.
Recording information: Sound Design Studios, Santa Barbera, CA (05/26/1998-05/30/1998).
Arranger: Tom Garling.
With one major exception, the tracks on Brass Attitude reflect the relatively traditional (dare we say restrained) big band sound of Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau, whose most distinctive feature by far is -- surprise, surprise -- its leader. At 70, MF still has a lot left, able to blast away at those ultrasonic passages and dish out that throbbing, unctious tone in the middle regions. Yet he seems to be choosing his spots with more economy, resorting frequently to the flugelhorn for mellower passages. The soloing by MF's sidemen -- the most prominently featured of whom are Tom Garling on trombone and Sal Giorgianni on tenor sax -- is of a competent, energetic bop variety with few distinguishing qualities. Thankfully, an element of strangeness bursts forth at the album's midpoint, "Misra-Dhenuka," a nearly 16-minute reminder of MF's sabbatical in India. Grounded in a raga, it dissolves into a 6/8 meter vamp based on what sounds like a Spanish chordal pattern. A less welcome bit of weirdness is MF alumnus Denis DiBlasio's amateurish vocal cameo in "The Lip," which in this context fawns over MF's high-note proclivity as shamelessly as rappers have about Miles Davis. ~ Richard S. Ginell