George Oliver

She's perhaps Germany's most wonderful insider tip. Almost 40 years have passed since Christina Lux and Oliver George played together in a rock band in Kassel. Those were Christina Lux's first steps on stage. After a year with many concerts, the voice of the then 18-year-old did not keep up and she had to take a break. "That was hard for me because I didn't know if I could fix it." It got better again, but she didn't want to go back to a rock band. In 1986 she got in touch with Edo & Vilko Zanki and recorded some songs together with Oliver George. They put them on a music cassette and visited the Zankis in their studio. "I only really felt how much the influence of Edo Zanki's way of singing influenced me when I started writing lyrics in German in 2006. A master."

Oliver Nelson meets Eric Dolphy on this frequently exciting sextet session with trumpeter Richard Williams, pianist Richard Wyands, bassist George Duvivier, and drummer Roy Haynes. Although Dolphy is too unique and skilled to be overshadowed in a setting such as this, Nelson holds his own. He contributed five of the six compositions (including "Screamin' the Blues," "The Meetin'," and "Alto-Itis") and effectively matches wits and creative ideas with Dolphy. This edition is a part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige Stereo reissues from Analogue Productions - 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made.

Posterity remembers Oliver Nelson primarily as an arranger/conductor. When he first began to attract attention with a series of albums for Prestige and its subsidiaries, however, Nelson was hailed as a versatile leader of small groups and a composer/instrumentalist who could refresh the music’s traditional verities while also looking ahead. There is no better showcase for these skills among his initial sessions than "Screamin’ the Blues", a rousing set of funky modernism interpreted by a sextet of players who shared Nelson’s allegiance to both virtuosity and vision.

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American composer and jazz saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961. It remains Nelson's most acclaimed album and features a lineup of notable musicians: Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes. Baritone saxophonist George Barrow does not take solos but remains a key feature in the subtle voicings of Nelson's arrangements.