''Last Train from Overbrook'' is an album by saxophonist
James Moody recorded in 1958 and released on the
Argo label.
[Edwards, D. & Callahan, M]
Argo Album Discography, Part 1: Jazz Series (1956-1965)
accessed February 4, 2013
Reception
The
Allmusic
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site awarded the album 4½ stars.
[Allmusic Review](_blank)
February 4, 2013
Track listing
''All compositions by James Moody, except as indicated''
# "Last Train from Overbrook" - 2:55
# "
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
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Rube Bloom
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Life and career
Bloom was born and died in New York City. He was Jewish.
During his career, he wo ...
,
Ted Koehler
Ted L. Koehler (July 14, 1894 – January 17, 1973) was an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972.
Life and career
Koehler was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C.
He started out as a photo-engraver, but ...
) - 2:35
# "Why Don't You?" (Johnny Pate) - 2:18
# "
What's New?
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Johnny Burke,
Bob Haggart
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) - 3:22
# "
Tico-Tico" (
Jose Abreu) - 1:37
# "There She Goes" - 2:18
# "
All the Things You Are
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,
Jerome Kern
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) - 2:03
# "Brother Yusef" (Pate) - 3:04
# "Yvonne" (Pate) - 3:35
# "The Moody One"
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Mission and Science
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(Pate) - 0:45
# "The Moody One" (Pate) - 2:38
Personnel
*
James Moody -
tenor saxophone
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,
alto saxophone,
flute
*Flip Ricard, Earl Turner,
Sonny Cohn
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-
trumpet
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*
Ethel Merker
K. Ethel Merker (1923–2012) was a prominent freelance and orchestral horn player in Chicago, who collaborated with the Frank Holton Company on the design and development of the Merker-Matic line of horns.
Early life and education
Kathryn Ethe ...
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...
on "Last Train from Overbrook"
[Liner notes by Frank London Brown, CADET LP637]
*John Avant -
trombone
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*Bill Atkins, Lenny Druss - alto saxophone
*
Vito Price
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,
Sandy Mosse,
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- tenor saxophone
*
Pat Patrick -
baritone saxophone
*
Junior Mance
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Biography Early life (1928–1947)
Mance was born in Evanston, Illinois. When he was five years old, Mance st ...
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piano
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*Floyd Morris -
piano
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*
Johnny Pate
John William Pate (born December 5, 1923) is an American former jazz bassist who became a producer, arranger, and leading figure in Chicago soul, pop, and rhythm and blues.
He learned piano and tuba as a child and later picked up the bass guitar ...
-
bass
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* Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in the bass range:
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** Acoustic bass gu ...
*John Gray -
guitar
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*Red Holt -
drums
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References
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James Moody (saxophonist) albums
1958 albums
Argo Records albums