Gigi Gryce Essentials
Playlist - 14 Songs
Composer/saxophonist Gigi Gryce bopped hard during the '50s. His lyrical alto style softens bebop's sharp edges in his oft-covered "Minority", while "Nica's Tempo" celebrates so-called Bebop Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter with elliptic rhythms and angular changes. Gryce found a sympathetic foil in piquant trumpeter Art Farmer on tunes like "Deltitnu". Following sultry 1960 performances like "Reminiscing", with his vibraphone-augmented final group, the Orch-tette, Gryce withdrew from jazz almost completely.
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Gigi Gryce Essentials features Gigi Gryce, Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce Quintet and more