Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	1	2	3	4	5

Ray Brown – Some of My Best Friends are… the Sax Players (1996)

Posted By: Oceandrop

Date: 13 Feb 2010 01:09:43

~allmusic
As a follow-up to bassist Ray Brown’s previous record in which he collaborated with several of his favorite pianists, Some of My Best Friends Are…The Sax Players features six major saxophonists (tenors Joe Lovano, Ralph Moore, Joshua Redman and Stanley Turrentine plus altoists Benny Carter and Jesse Davis) on two songs apiece with his regular trio. Although more than 60 years separate the ageless Carter from Redman, each of the saxes originally developed their own voice in the straight-ahead jazz tradition. Highlights of the colorful set include Benny Carter’s playful rendition of “Love Walked In,” Moore’s cooking solo on “Crazeology” (a Benny Harris bop classic which the record mistakenly lists as written by Bud Freeman), Davis ripping through “Moose the Mooche” and Turrentine’s romp on the blues “Port of Rico.” Pianist Benny Green and drummer Gregory Hutchinson provide suitable accompaniment (Green’s solos are consistently excellent) and all dozen of the songs are successful and swinging. As an extra bonus, on the latter part of the CD each of the saxophonists has a brief chat (between 26 seconds and a minute apiece) with Brown about their early influences. There is so much good feeling and obvious mutual respect shown that one wishes these talks were at least twice as long; the Benny Carter segment is most memorable. This well-conceived project is easily recommended.

Tracklist:
01. How High the Moon (with Joe Lovano) (5:28)
02. Love Walked In (with Benny Carter) (4:43)
03. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (with Joshua Redman) (6:36)
04. Crazeology (with Ralph Moore) (3:48)
05. Port of Rico (with Stanley Turrentine) (6:18)
06. Moose the Mooche (with Jesse Davis) (5:24)
07. Easy Living (with Joe Lovano) (6:14)
08. Just You, Just Me (with Joshua Redman) (4:09)
09. Fly Me to the Moon (with Benny Carter) (5:31)
10. (When It”s) Sleepy Time Down South (with Ralph Moore) (7:08)
11. These Foolish Things (with Jesse Davis) (5:59)
12. God Bless the Child (with Stanley Turrentine) (6:59)
13. Ray Brown in Conversation with Joe Lovano (0:55)
14. Ray Brown in Conversation with Benny Carter (1:05)
15. Ray Brown in Conversation with Stanley Turrentine (0:31)
16. Ray Brown in Conversation with Jesse Davis (0:27)
17. Ray Brown in Conversation with Joshua Redman (0:28)
18. Ray Brown in Conversation with Ralph Moore (0:43)

Personnel:
Ray Brown – bass
Benny Green – piano
Gregory Hutchinson – drums
Benny Carter, Jesse Davis - alto saxophones
Joe Lovano, Ralph Moore, Joshua Redman, Stanley Turrentine -tenor saxophones

Recorded at Power Station, Studio A, New York City; November 20-22, 1995 & Conway Studios "A", Los Angeles; February 13, 1996
Recording Producers: Ray Brown, Elaine Martone
Recording Engineer: Jack Renner
Executive Producer: Robert Woods
Assistant Engineers: Robert Smith, William Kinsley
Editor: James Bonney
Cover Painting: Alto Composite, 1974. From the "Of The Blues" series
Cover Design: Susan Cybulski
Art Director: Anilda Carrasquillo
Liner notes by Alyn Shipton and Elaine Martone

EAC logfile

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 12. February 2010, 20:12

Ray Brown / Some of My Best Friends are…..the Sax Players

Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SH-S223C Adapter: 2 ID: 1

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 697
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -5 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 5:28.00 | 0 | 24599
2 | 5:28.00 | 4:42.42 | 24600 | 45791
3 | 10:10.42 | 6:36.10 | 45792 | 75501
4 | 16:46.52 | 3:48.10 | 75502 | 92611
5 | 20:34.62 | 6:18.10 | 92612 | 120971
6 | 26:52.72 | 5:23.40 | 120972 | 145236
7 | 32:16.37 | 6:14.30 | 145237 | 173316
8 | 38:30.67 | 4:09.00 | 173317 | 191991
9 | 42:39.67 | 5:31.15 | 191992 | 216831
10 | 48:11.07 | 7:08.18 | 216832 | 248949
11 | 55:19.25 | 5:59.22 | 248950 | 275896
12 | 61:18.47 | 6:59.00 | 275897 | 307321
13 | 68:17.47 | 0:55.30 | 307322 | 311476
14 | 69:13.02 | 1:04.73 | 311477 | 316349
15 | 70:18.00 | 0:31.17 | 316350 | 318691
16 | 70:49.17 | 0:27.00 | 318692 | 320716
17 | 71:16.17 | 0:27.73 | 320717 | 322814
18 | 71:44.15 | 0:43.22 | 322815 | 326061

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename C:\extracts\Ray Brown - Some of My Best Friends are… the Sax Players\Ray Brown - Some of My Best Friends are…..the Sax Players.wav

Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 659E3AD6
Copy CRC 659E3AD6
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [990567E9]
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [B21515DB]
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [329C4B8B]
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [EE924D6D]
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [EC852DE6]
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [32A21D42]
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [822A058C]
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [E524812C]
Track 9 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [54E68651]
Track 10 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [33D33723]
Track 11 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [7A11FEC4]
Track 12 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [C480D60C]
Track 13 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [2E4BD96E]
Track 14 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [0943ADAE]
Track 15 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [3C9F60DF]
Track 16 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [67826192]
Track 17 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [4D7EFFFF]
Track 18 accurately ripped (confidence 4) [2EE95459]

All tracks accurately ripped

End of status report

accurateRip verification

[CUETools log; Date: 20.11.2011 20:25:50; Version: 2.0.9]
[CTDB TOCID: CNv8Hx7yDeKlAggS5NSw1d9OpXg-] disk not present in database.
[AccurateRip ID: 003a8502-02f61f85-e810fb12] found.
Track [ CRC ] Status
01 [990567e9] (6/6) Accurately ripped
02 [b21515db] (6/6) Accurately ripped
03 [329c4b8b] (6/6) Accurately ripped
04 [ee924d6d] (6/6) Accurately ripped
05 [ec852de6] (6/6) Accurately ripped
06 [32a21d42] (6/6) Accurately ripped
07 [822a058c] (6/6) Accurately ripped
08 [e524812c] (6/6) Accurately ripped
09 [54e68651] (6/6) Accurately ripped
10 [33d33723] (6/6) Accurately ripped
11 [7a11fec4] (6/6) Accurately ripped
12 [c480d60c] (6/6) Accurately ripped
13 [2e4bd96e] (6/6) Accurately ripped
14 [0943adae] (6/6) Accurately ripped
15 [3c9f60df] (6/6) Accurately ripped
16 [67826192] (6/6) Accurately ripped
17 [4d7effff] (6/6) Accurately ripped
18 [2ee95459] (6/6) Accurately ripped

Track Peak [ CRC32 ] [W/O NULL]
– 100,0 [659E3AD6] [F9D781EA]
01 99,9 [DB1809BD] [EF96D327]
02 88,4 [785DC5EF] [978F7A88]
03 99,9 [56664373] [9D1438D7]
04 96,6 [F7D57C18] [A32F05AC]
05 99,9 [CBD025E1] [4803A72B]
06 99,9 [67F15657] [80843D43]
07 99,9 [27DD1AEA] [6D9F51C9]
08 99,9 [9F304D09] [C26C51D0]
09 99,9 [61E5D5B5] [E7983671]
10 99,9 [223E67BA] [2E3FFC5D]
11 100,0 [2EE3E4ED] [0EB9A4ED]
12 99,9 [46D4500E] [0BF0DC5D]
13 18,5 [3769A9C6] [A7AC043A]
14 48,2 [D4E2BE46] [D38E85E3]
15 38,7 [9815E339] [91DEE390]
16 17,1 [F306D213] [86DDA085]
17 47,0 [793F8138] [81DBEB95]
18 24,5 [31AD0151] [8349118C]

(links are interchangeable)

FileSonic linklist

FileServe linklist

90s Jazz Classic Jazz Lossless