Potpourri (Jones / Lewis album)

Infobox Album | Name = Potpourri
Type = Album
Artist = Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra


Released =
Recorded = 1974 June, Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia, PA
Genre = Jazz
Length = 44:08
Label = Philadelphia International
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfpxqlgldte link]
Last album = "Live in Tokyo" (1974)
This album = "Potpourri" (1974)
Next album = "Thad Jones / Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica" (1974)

"Potpourri" is a 1974 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Philadelphia International Records label. The album was nominated for a 1975 Grammy award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" and Thad Jones' arrangement of "Living for the City" was also nominated in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category that same year. [LA Times, "The Envelope" awards database. 1975 Grammy awards [http://theenvelope.latimes.com/factsheets/awardsdb/env-awards-db-landing,0,3713019.htmlstory link] . Accessed 2008 April 19.]

Track listing

# "Blues In A Minute" – 8:24
# "All My Yesterdays" – 4:31
# "Quiet Lady" – 7:31
# "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" (Wonder) – 3:58
# "For the Love of Money" (Gamble, Huff, Jackson) – 4:12
# "Yours and Mine" – 3:46
# "Ambiance" (McPartland, Arr: Dodgion) – 7:22
# "Living for the City" (Wonder) – 4:24All songs composed and arranged by Thad Jones except as indicated.

Personnel

* Thad Jones – flugelhorn
* Mel Lewis – drums
* Roland Hanna – piano
* George Mraz – bass
* Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, flute
* Eddie Xiques – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
* Billy Harper – tenor saxophone, clarinet
* Ron Bridgewater – tenor saxophone, clarinet
* Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
* Jon Faddis – trumpet
* Jim Bossy – trumpet
* Steve Furtado – trumpet
* Cecil Bridgewater – trumpet
* Jimmy Knepper – trombone
* Quentin Jackson – trombone
* Billy Campbell – trombone
* Cliff Heather – trombone
* Buddy Lucas – harmonica, jaw harp

References / External Links

* Philadelphia International Records KZ 33152
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfpxqlgldte All Music Guide]
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/1126279 discogs.com] , Accessed 2008 May 1

Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra discography