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Horns are an important part of the instrumentation of this album. Jarreau received help from some of the best instrumentalists around when he got Freddie Hubbard for the flugelhorn and Pauline Da Costa for percussion. The sounds of their instruments and Jarreau's own vocal vibrations interact for fantastic acoustics...
leaving jazz behind and going for the big money. George Benson, 35, once a straight-ahead jazz guitarist, tops both the jazz and pop charts with his easy-listening sound. (Weekend in L.A., his latest album, has already sold close to 2 million copies.) Chuck Mangione, 37, who plays flugelhorn and trumpet, is right up there with...
BAROQUE SKETCHES (Columbia). Some imaginative and energetic forays in the boundary land between jazz and the classics by the lyrical Flugelhorn of Art Farmer and a big "baroque orchestra" bright with brasses. The mixed company of composers includes Chopin, Albéniz and Sonny Rollins (Alfie's Theme) along with Bach (Air on the G String and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). Pretty wiggy...
OSCAR PETERSON TRIO PLUS ONE (Mercu-ry). The guest plus is Trumpeter Clark Terry, who makes himself right at home, tearing along breakneck above Ray Brown's bouncing bass in Squeaky's Blues, weeping into his flugelhorn in They Didn't Believe Me, choking out a funny song of his own called Incoherent Blues...
...from a dope cure in Europe, makes his first recording in five years and shows that he is coolly sure of himself and very jaunty (in Walkin'). He can also be as lyrical as anyone in jazz today. He says a lot in little, can sing like a flugelhorn (Whatever Possess'd Me) and make a flugelhorn sing (Soultrane...