Fontainebleau (album)

Fontainebleau
Studio album by
Tadd Dameron
Released1956
RecordedMarch 9, 1956,[1] Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length30:58
LabelPrestige[2]
Tadd Dameron chronology
A Study in Dameronia
(1956) 		Fontainebleau
(1956) 		Mating Call
(1956)

Fontainebleau is a 1956 album by jazz musician Tadd Dameron.[3][4] The title track, inspired by a trip to the French palace of the same name, is a through-composed composition with no solos, while "Flossie Lou" is a contrafact of "Jeepers Creepers".[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
Disc[7]
MusicHound Jazz[8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [9]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[10]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz[11]

In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote: "As is usual with most Dameron dates, the emphasis is on his inventive arrangements although there is space... for individual solos. Recommended."[6]

Marc Myers of JazzWax called Fontainebleau "one of the prettiest octet albums of the 1950s," and commented: "The players on the album come together well, as if carefully selected for their tones... For me, the album is as perfect as a panoramic landscape painting... The music is delicate and cohesive, and the solos celebrate the vistas that dazzle the eye."[12]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Tadd Dameron.

  1. "Fontainebleau" – 4:48
  2. "Delirium" – 5:00
  3. "The Scene Is Clean" – 5:00
  4. "Flossie Lou" – 4:50
  5. "Bula-Beige" – 11:20

Recorded March 9, 1956, at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Yanow, Scott (2000). Bebop - Scott Yanow - Google Books. ISBN 9780879306083. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  2. ^ Scarrow, Simon (5 October 2001). The Rough Guide to Jazz - Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather, Brian Priestley, Charles Alexander - Google Books. ISBN 9780312278700. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  3. ^ Fontainebleau at AllMusic
  4. ^ "Jazz news: Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau".
  5. ^ Combs, Paul (2012). Dameronia: The Life and Music of Tadd Dameron. The University of Michigan Press. pp. 135–137. ISBN 978-0-472-02881-8.
  6. ^ a b Allmusic review
  7. ^ Hall, Tony (22 February 1958). "One of the few since Ellington". Disc. No. 3. p. 19.
  8. ^ Holtje, Steve; Lee, Nancy Ann (1998). MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide. Schirmer. p. 297.
  9. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 328. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  10. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 56. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  11. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 222.
  12. ^ Myers, Marc (June 18, 2019). "Tadd Dameron: Fontainebleau". All About Jazz. Retrieved January 9, 2024.