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Walter Norris & Leszek Mozdzer - The Last Set - Live at the A-Trane (2012)

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Walter Norris & Leszek Mozdzer - The Last Set - Live at the A-Trane (2012)

Walter Norris & Leszek Mozdzer - The Last Set - Live at the A-Trane (2012)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 51:14 min | 117 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Walter Norris (born 1931) was a part of the west coast jazz scene from 1954 to 1960 and played with all famous local musicians Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Charlie Mariano, Herb Geller. In 1958 he appeared on Ornette Coleman s legendary recording Something Else!!! . Two years later Norris went to New York, where he worked at Hugh Heffner s Playboy club from 1963 to 1970, first as a pianist and then as artistic director. Norris came to Europe with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in the early 70s and recorded several albums including the acclaimed LP Drifting with George Mraz. After a short stay in New York with Charles Mingus Quintet, he accepted a job in the Berlin SFB Radio Orchestra in 1977 and moved to Berlin permanently. He later became a professor for jazz piano at the Berlin Music University Hochschule der Künste and continued working as a composer and musicologist. Polish jazz star Leszek Mozdzer was a Norris fan and they met in Berlin, collaborating once only for a gig in Nov 2008 at Berlin jazz club the A-Train. On the night of October 29, 2011, Walter Norris died in his home in Berlin at the age of 79. After one year, almost to the day, ACT releases Last Set Live at the A-Trane , a recorded dialogue between the two outstanding pianists and extending the legacy of an unjustly unknown artist. As Mozdzer explains, 'Walter didn t have a big career, he just played music. He was a true artist, though he often shone in the background, and it is about time someone drew attention to him'.


Tracklist:

1 Tactics (Możdżer)
2 From Another Star (Norris)
3 Head Set Trance (Możdżer)
4 Reflective (Norris)
5 Spider Web
6 Nefertiti
7 Postscript Blues (Norris)
8 Tsunami (Możdżer)