Release Date: 05 March 2021
Label: Steeplechase
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 716043125418
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 05 March 2021
Label: Steeplechase
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 716043125418
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
Trumpeter Bill Hardman (1933-1990) was a long-time front-line Jazz Messenger. This New York session from the summer of 1989 became Hardman's last recording and saw him joined by tenor saxophonist Junior Cook and trombonist Robin Eubanks. Plus the rhythm section of Mickey Tucker (piano), Paul Brown (bass) and Leroy Williams (drums).
Bill Hardman was one of the leading trumpeters in the hard bop era of 50s playing with Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Charles Mingus among others. Hardman lived in Paris in the last years of his life. "(Hardman) has cultivated a strikingly personal style, which emerges on this album." (Birger Jørgensen - Arhus Stiftstidende on What's Up)
"In 1989 he made an excellent sextet album, What's Up (SteepleChase), reuniting with Cook and adding Robin Eubanks' trombone. At about the same time he moved to Paris, where he died Dec. 5th, 1990 of a cerebral stroke at 57." (from the article Lest We Forget by George Kanzler - New York City Jazz Record, Dec. 2020)
Tracklisting
Spike Wilner; Dmitry Baevsky; Yves Brouqui; Paul Gill; Joe Strasser
Shirley Horn; Charles Ables; Steve Williams
Rob Scheps; Jim O'connor; Jamie Reynolds; David Kingsnorth; Victor Jones
Michael Eckroth; Ron McClure; Steve Johns
Vito Dieterle; Kris Kaiser; Griffin Fink; Aaron Seeber
Thad Jones; Ole Kock Hansen; Jesper Lundgaard; Ed Thigpen
Matt Panayides; Rich Perry; Steve LaSpina; Mark Ferber
Andrew Rathbun; Gary Versace
Various Artists
Mali Sheard
Ben Crosland Quintet
Samuel Blaser Quartet
Microfiche
Supereon
Orchestre National de Jazz
Enrico Pieranunzi & Bebo Ferra