Plays Again

Dave Pell

4**** by All Music Guide

Tracklisting:

1. Grey Flannel (Marty Paich)
2. Tishomingo Blues (Spencer Williams)
3. Prom To Prom (Dave Pell)
4. Can't We Be Friends
5. There'll Be Some Changes Made (Walter Benton-Billy Higgins)
6. Crescendo Date (Marty Paich)
7. Suddently It's Spring (Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke)
8. Jazz Goes To Siwash (Bill Holman)
9. Mountain Greenery (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)

Recorded at Britannia Studios, Los Angeles, August 13 & 14, 1984.


Review:
"The first recording by the Dave Pell octet since the early 1960s finds the veteran tenor saxophonist (who had been working in the interim as a producer and a studio musician) using a completely different personnel than in the early days. Pell and his Los Angeles group (trumpeter Bill Berry, trombonist Bill Watrous, baritonist Med Flory, guitarist Tony Rizzi, pianist Bob Florence, bassist Buddy Clark, and drummer Frank Capp) are featured mostly on updated arrangements. The classic cool jazz sound is revived throughout this CD which includes such numbers as "Tishomingo Blues," "Can't We Be Friends," "There'll Be Some Changes Made," and "Mountain Greenery." The charts were provided by Marty Paich, John Williams, Bob Florence, Shorty Rogers, and Bill Holman. Fortunately Dave Pell has since been working on a regular basis with a new version of his octet; this CD was the start."
— Scott Yanow (All Music Guide)

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