''Traditionalism Revisited'' is an album by jazz trombonist and pianist Bob Brookmeyer featuring popular music of the 1920s and 1930s recorded in 1957 for the World Pacific label.

Reception

The

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review by Scott Yanow stated "While these selections have occasionally been revived by Dixieland and swing bands, Brookmeyer and his group use harmonies that were modern for the 1950s... Because the musicians have a respect for the older styles, they extend rather than break the tradition; the results are quite enjoyable". On

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, Jack Bowers stated "it’s good to hear Brookmeyer, one of a handful of masters on his axe, and especially the versatile Giuffre, whose more recent work lies in the realm of the avant–garde, playing sturdy straight–ahead Jazz with a well–defined kick".Bowers, J.
All About Jazz Review
October 1, 1998

Track listing

# "Louisiana" ( Andy Razaf, Bob Schafer, J. C. Johnson) - 5:26 # "Santa Claus Blues" ( Charley Straight,

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) - 5:42 # "Truckin'" ( Rube Bloom,

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, Tony Jackson, Abe Olman) - 4:46 # "Sweet Like This" (Dave Nelson, King Oliver) - 4:05 # "Don't Be That Way" (

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, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) - 4:58 # " Honeysuckle Rose" (Razaf,

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) - 6:05 # "Slow Freight" (Bob Brookmeyer) - 5:47 Bonus track on CD reissue # " The Sheik of Araby" ( Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler) - 5:01 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

* Bob Brookmeyer -

valve trombone The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide. Although it has been built in sizes from alto to contrabass, it is the tenor valve trombone pitched ...

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 Giuffre James Peter Giuffre (, ; April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating f ...

clarinet The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...

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 ...

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

* Jim Hall -

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

* Joe Benjamin (tracks 1, 2, 4-6 & 9), Ralph Peña (tracks 3, 7 & 8) -

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* Dave Bailey -

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 1957 albums World Pacific Records albums Bob Brookmeyer albums