A Fickle Sonance
A Fickle Sonance | ||||
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Studio album by Jackie McLean | ||||
Released | End of November 1962[1] | |||
Recorded | October 26, 1961 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, US | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 35:18 | |||
Label | Blue Note BST 84089 | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Jackie McLean chronology | ||||
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A Fickle Sonance is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label.[2] It features McLean in a quintet with trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, pianist Sonny Clark, bassist Butch Warren and drummer Billy Higgins.
The "sonance" of the album’s title is an obsolete word for a sound or a tune.[3]
The opening track "Five Will Get You Ten" was originally credited to pianist Clark, but later co-writing credit was given to Thelonious Monk. The song is now believed to have been written solely by Monk as "Two Timer", though it was never recorded by him. The song's lead sheet was allegedly discovered by Clark in Monk's home,[4] or the home of jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter,[5] and passed off as a Clark tune to pay for his drug addiction. The song's debut recording under its original title was by Monk's son, T. S. Monk on his 1997 album Monk on Monk.
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [7] |
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The AllMusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 3 stars and stated:
Even though A Fickle Sonance preceded McLean's intense 1962 album Let Freedom Ring, the playing remained in a swinging blues-oriented style, showing no hint of the direction his music was about to take.[8]
In a 2016 review flophouse.com said:
If Jackie McLean’s career would’ve ended right after recording A Fickle Sonance, people would certainly have pointed out the alto saxophonist’s development from one of Charlie Parker’s most proficient disciples to an alto saxophonist that made his mark with a series of excellent Blue Note recordings from 1959 to 1961, employing his highly emotional, piercing sound: already a great legacy. However, McLean raised the bars considerably the following years, breaking and entering hard bop’s living quarters with a series of vanguard recordings in cooperation with avantgardists like Ornette Coleman.[9]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Five Will Get You Ten" | Thelonious Monk, Sonny Clark | 7:06 |
2. | "Subdued" | Jackie McLean | 5:54 |
3. | "Sundu" | Clark | 4:54 |
4. | "A Fickle Sonance" | McLean | 6:49 |
5. | "Enitnerrut" | Tommy Turrentine | 5:48 |
6. | "Lost" | Butch Warren | 4:47 |
Personnel
- Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
- Tommy Turrentine – trumpet
- Sonny Clark – piano
- Butch Warren – bass
- Billy Higgins – drums
References
- ^ "Spotlight Albums of the Week". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1 December 1962. p. 20. Retrieved 17 January 2023 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Jackie McLean discography". Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ "the definition of sonance". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ "The Thelonious Monk Compositions". theloniousrecords.com. Archived from the original on December 6, 2016. Retrieved October 15, 2017.
- ^ Kelley, Robin D.G. (2009). Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original. Free Press. p. 568. ISBN 978-0-684-83190-9, p. 311
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-fickle-sonance-r155355
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 979. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Campbell, A. "A Fickle Sonance Review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ "Jackie McLean a Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 1961)". 21 August 2016.
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