Leo Richardson

Jerome Richardson - Roamin' With Richardson (1959) {Prestige, OJCCD-1849-2, rel 1994}
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© 1959, 1994 Prestige New Jazz / Fantasy | OJCCD-1849-2
Jazz / Cool / Hard Bop / Saxophone

Jerome Richardson has long been one of the most versatile of jazzmen, able to get a personal sound and to swing on flute, tenor, alto, soprano and baritone. For his quartet date with pianist Richard Wyands (who at this point often sounded like Red Garland), bassist George Tucker and drummer Charlie Persip, Richardson plays baritone on three songs (in a deep tone a little reminiscent of Pepper Adams and Leo Parker), two on tenor and one on flute.

Tadd Dameron - The Magic Touch (1962) {Riverside OJCCD-143-2 rel 1992}
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© 1962, 1992 Riverside / Fantasy | OJCCD-143-2
Jazz / Bop / Progressive Jazz

Tadd Dameron is known to proclaim that he became an arranger rather than stay an exclusive instrumentalist because it was the only way he could get his music played. In retrospect, considering his best-known works are widely revered, few of them are frequently played by other bands, and only the finest musicians are able to properly interpret them. Dameron's charts had an ebb and flow that superseded the basic approach of Count Basie, yet were never as quite complicated as Duke Ellington. Coming up in the bop movement, Dameron's music had to have been by definition holding broader artistic harmonics, while allowing for the individuality of his bandmembers.