''Fathead Comes On'' is an album by American saxophonist Dave Newman featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the

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label.David "Fathead" Newman Incomplete Discography
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Reception

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awarded the album 3 stars stating "a very bluesy album, but also contains its share of tricky melodies and ambitious arrangements".

Track listing

''All compositions by Dave Newman except as indicated'' # " Unchain My Heart" (

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, Robert Sharp, Jr.) - 4:30 # "Cellar Groove" (Norris Austin) - 5:39 # "Alto Sauce" - 5:15 # "Hello There" - 3:07 # "Scufflin'" - 6:36 # "Esther's Melody" - 4:03 # "Lady Day" (Leroy Johnson) - 3:41 *Recorded in New York City on May 3 (tracks 2, 4 & 7) and December 9 (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6), 1961

Personnel

* Dave Newman -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

Marcus Belgrave Marcus Batista Belgrave (June 12, 1936 – May 24, 2015) was an American jazz trumpet player from Detroit, born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He recorded with numerous musicians from the 1950s onwards. Belgrave was inducted into the class of 2017 ...

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

(tracks 2, 4 & 7) *Norris Austin (tracks 2, 4 & 7),

Hank Crawford Bennie Ross "Hank" Crawford, Jr. (December 21, 1934 – January 29, 2009) was an American alto saxophonist, pianist, arranger and songwriter whose genres ranged from R&B, hard bop, jazz-funk, and soul jazz. Crawford was musical director for ...

(tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6) -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

*Jimmy Jefferson (tracks 2, 4 & 7), Edgar Willis (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6) -

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Charlie Persip Charles Lawrence Persip (July 26, 1929 – August 23, 2020), known as Charli Persip and formerly as Charlie Persip (he changed the spelling of his name to Charli in the late 1960s), was an American jazz drummer. Biography Born in Morristown, N ...

(tracks 2, 4 & 7), Bruno Carr -

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

References

{{Authority control 1962 albums David "Fathead" Newman albums Albums produced by Nesuhi Ertegun Atlantic Records albums