Nino Tempo - Purveyor Of Balladry: The Best Of Nino Tempo On Atlantic (2018)
Nino Tempo - Purveyor Of Balladry: The Best Of Nino Tempo On Atlantic (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 343 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | Covers included | 00:56:09
Mainstream Jazz, Smooth Jazz | Label: Omnivore Recordings
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 343 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 143 Mb | Covers included | 00:56:09
Mainstream Jazz, Smooth Jazz | Label: Omnivore Recordings
First-ever compilation of his Atlantic Records recordings and featuring previously unissued live take on “Darn That Dream.”Tracklist:
Nino Tempo has had a storied and varied career in the entertainment business. He was a musical prodigy, winning a national talent show for his singing at four years of age. A few years later, he took up the clarinet, inspired to learn the instrument after a brief stint singing with Benny Goodman’s band. Less than a year later (at the age of 10), Nino added the saxophone to his musical arsenal after hearing recordings of Charlie Parker. He was also an actor in a number of movies, notably alongside Jimmy Stewart in The Glenn Miller Story (1953).
In the early 1960s, Tempo joined the in-demand group of studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. It was at a Bobby Darin recording session that Nino met Atlantic co-founder Ahmet Ertegun for the first time, and a lifelong friendship began.
Along with a new friendship, a recording career was launched as Ertegun signed Nino and his sister, April Stevens, to a recording contract with Atco, a subsidiary of Atlantic. So successful was Nino and April’s 1963 duet, “Deep Purple,” that the chart-topping, million-selling gold record scored a Best Rock and Roll Recording Grammy® in 1964.
The 1970s found Nino equally active, this time with his band Nino Tempo and 5th Ave. Sax. The group’s 1973 hit, “Sister James,” has been cited as one of the first instrumental disco records to make the charts. It has since become a Northern Soul favorite. In 1975, Nino’s ongoing session work included playing both saxophone and keyboards on John Lennon’s Phil Spector-produced album, Rock ’n’ Roll.
In 1989, shortly after Ahmet Ertegun’s brother Nesuhi passed away, Nino was on hand at Lincoln Center to pay tribute at his memorial service with a stirring rendition of “Darn That Dream.” It was that very performance—appearing for the first time on Purveyor Of Balladry—that landed Nino Tempo back on the Atlantic Records roster. Omnivore’s compilation is drawn from the best of Nino’s two Atlantic studio albums. The collection’s title is derived from a comment by jazz critic and author, Leonard Feather. In his review of a 1993 Nino Tempo concert, Feather referred to the sax player as “a purveyor of balladry.”
AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
Since 2011, Omnivore Recordings has been assembling an increasingly eclectic catalog with its reissues and new recordings from a range of artists that include everyone from Big Star and Game Theory to Art Pepper and Maynard Ferguson, with stops along the way at Sandra and Emitt Rhodes, Harry Dean Stanton, and George Jones, to mention just a few. This compilation from saxophonist Nino Tempo's 1990s tenure with Atlantic Records is taken from two albums that have largely been forgotten, much like the artist himself. Tempo is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, producer, former actor, and more. He was a member of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew, Ferguson's bands, and he worked with his sister April Stevens in a popular '60s duo – their 1961 hit, "Deep Purple," is an evergreen that still receives airplay.
This set collects the ballad tracks from Tempo's two Atlantic albums, Tenor Saxophone (1990) and Nino (1993), and a previously unissued live performance of "Darn That Dream" from the funeral of Atlantic Records' co-founder Nesuhi Ertegun. It is included here as the reason Ahmet Ertegun signed him (again) – he'd been at companion label Atco with Stevens. "Darn That Dream" reveals Tempo as a supremely nuanced melodic improviser. While Randy Poe's fine liner essay quotes critic Leonard Feather asserting that the saxophonist is a descendant of the lineage that begat Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, and Lee Konitz, a strong case for Paul Desmond and Art Pepper can also be made. The set includes 13 tracks in total: 11 are instrumentals ranging from jazz standards such as "'Round Midnight," "Stella by Starlight," and "Goodbye" to elegant Brazilian fare such as Dori Caymmi's "Amazon River" (with Stevens) and Ary Barroso's "Brazil." There are also tracks by longtime Tempo friend and associate Mike Stoller – "A Theme for Anna," "Bahia Manhattan" – and one by Leiber & Stoller –"Suzanne (Say You Can)." The other vocal number here is a fine reading of "You Are So Beautiful" with Roberta Flack (who co-produced and arranged it with pianist Barry Miles). Its charts are indicative of the entire album's: Elegant, gauzy, languid, and tasteful. Most tunes utilize a standard jazz quintet underscored by tasteful string charts, and occasionally, electric arrangements such as on the nearly majestic reading of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and an unissued studio edited version of Leon Russell's "This Masquerade" stripped of its original vocal track. Tempo also delivers an original in the lithe, smooth jazz number "Call It Love," the album's outlier, with funky, compressed drumming, tropical piano harmonies, and tight electric bass. Clocking in at just under an hour, Purveyor of Balladry survives as a solid jazz entry from the era, but more than this, it shines a bright light on Tempo's particular set of gifts as a saxophonist. Everything here is classy, graceful, and deeply soulful. Thanks go to Omnivore for a lovely gift we didn't know we needed.
1. Darn That Dream (Live)
2. This Masquerade (Instrumental-Only Version)
3. Anyone Who Had A Heart
4. Amazon River (feat. April Stevens)
5. Brazil
6. You Are So Beautiful (feat. Roberta Flack)
7. Bahia Manhattan
8. Call It Love
9. A Theme For Anna
10. 'Round Midnight
11. Stella By Starlight
12. Suzanne (You Can)
13. Goodbye
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