Rush Hour (Joe Lovano album)

Rush Hour
Studio album by
Joe Lovano
Released1995
RecordedApril 6 – June 12, 1994
GenreJazz
Length63:54
LabelBlue Note
ProducerJoe Lovano
Joe Lovano chronology
Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard
(1994) 		Rush Hour
(1995) 		Ten Tales
(1994)

Rush Hour is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano, featuring an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller, recorded in 1994 and released on the Blue Note label.[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "This is one of the most exciting jazz releases of 1995... on the basis of this date alone, Lovano must rank as one of the top tenors of the 1990s".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Tom HullB[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Joe Lovano except as indicated
  1. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) – 3:58
  2. "Peggy's Blue Skylight" (Charles Mingus) – 3:33
  3. "Wildcat" – 2:57
  4. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 5:09
  5. "Rush Hour On 23rd Street" (Gunther Schuller) – 8:53
  6. "Crespuscle With Nellie" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:43
  7. "Lament For M" (Schuller) – 5:41
  8. "Topsy Turvy" – 4:27
  9. "The Love I Long For" (Howard Dietz, Vernon Duke) – 3:11
  10. "Juniper's Garden" – 2:40
  11. "Kathline Gray" (Ornette Coleman) – 3:26
  12. "Headin' Out Movin' In" (Schuller) – 11:13
  13. "Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:41

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Joe Lovano discography accessed July 21, 2011
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed July 21, 2011
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Joe Lovano". Tom Hull. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 909. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.