Paul Jeffrey - Electrifying Sounds (1968)

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Paul Jeffrey - Electrifying Sounds (1968)


1 	Made Minor Blue 	
2 	I Guess I'll Hang My Tars Out To Dry 	
3 	The Dreamer 	
4 	Ecclesiology 	
5 	Green Ivan 	
6 	A.V.G.

Bass – Larry Ridley
Drums – Billy Hart
Piano – George Cables
Saxophone – Paul Jeffrey
Trumpet – Jimmy Owens

Paul Jeffrey joined Monk’s quartet in 1970 and remained until Monk withdrew from public performance in 1976. Reviewing an Avery Fisher Hall performance by the quartet in 1975, John S. Wilson of The New York Times called Mr. Jeffrey “an unusually skillful interpreter of Mr. Monk’s music, playing with more assurance and personal freedom than other saxophonists who have been associated with the pianist.”

Jeffrey also had a long association with another jazz giant, the bassist and composer Charles Mingus. He was a member of a big band Mingus led in 1972 and worked with him regularly from 1977 until shortly before Mingus’s death in 1979, writing arrangements as well as playing saxophone.

After his stint with Mingus, Paul Jeffrey focused on teaching. From 1983 until his retirement in 2003, he was the director of jazz studies at Duke University. Before that he taught at Hartt College in Hartford and at Rutgers University in Newark. A number of his students went on to high-profile careers in jazz, among them the trumpeter Terence Blanchard and the pianist Jeb Patton.

Paul Henley Jeffrey was born in Manhattan on April 8, 1933, and received a bachelor’s degree in music education from Ithaca College. Early in his career, he worked with B. B. King and other blues and rhythm-and-blues artists. He was later briefly in the bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie.

Among the albums he recorded as a leader was “Electrifying Sounds of the Paul Jeffrey Quintet” (1968), one of the first jazz records to feature an electronically amplified saxophone. --- nytimes.com

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Paul Jeffrey - Watershed (1973)

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Paul Jeffrey - Watershed (1973)


A1 	Minor Scene 	5:15
A2 	Brand New Day 	5:54
A3 	Love Letters 	5:36
A4 	Moon Madness 	5:52
B1 	Brand X 	5:18
B2 	My Son 	8:12
B3 	Geometric Blues 	3:38
B4 	Serenity 	2:54

Acoustic Bass – Richard Davis
Drums – Thelonious Monk, Jr.
Electric Guitar – Jack Wilkins
Tenor Saxophone, Composed By – Paul Jeffrey

Paul Jeffrey was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and educator. Perhaps best known for performing with Thelonious Monk (1970–1975), Jeffrey also worked with musicians including Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton and B.B. King, amongst many others.

Born in New York City, Jeffrey attended Kingston High School. After graduating in 1951, he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in music education at Ithaca College in 1955. He spent the late 1950s touring with bands led by Illinois Jacquet, Elmo Hope, Big Maybelle, and Wynonie Harris. From 1960 to 1961, Jeffrey toured the US with B.B. King, after which he worked as a freelance musician in the New York City area and toured with bands led by Howard McGhee, Clark Terry, and Dizzy Gillespie.

1968 marked Jeffrey’s first studio work as a leader, when he recorded the album Electrifying Sounds on Savoy Records. He toured with the Count Basie Orchestra before beginning his associations with Thelonious Monk and Charles Mingus. He first joined Monk’s quartet for a multi-day run at the Frog & Nightgown club in Raleigh, North Carolina, in May 1970.

Jeffrey performed as a regular member of Monk’s band throughout the remainder of Monk’s public performance career, appearing with Monk throughout the US and Japan at the Village Vanguard, Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall, the Jazz Workshop, the Manne-Hole, the Cellar Door, and many other venues. He was hired by George Wein to organize a 15-piece band for a tribute concert to Monk at Carnegie Hall in 1974; a concert at which Monk made a surprise appearance, replacing Barry Harris on the piano just as the concert was starting.

Jeffrey had a lasting association with Charles Mingus throughout the 1970s. He first performed as a member of Mingus’s big band at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1972, and he continued performing, arranging, and recording with Mingus through 1979, the year Mingus died. In 1973 and 1974 Jeffrey made three additional studio recordings as leader on the Mainstream Records label.

Jeffrey was a saxophone instructor at Columbia University in 1973. He held positions in arranging and jazz history at Jersey City State College (1974), as jazz ensemble director at the University of Hartford (1975–1983), and as an assistant professor of jazz at Livingston College of Rutgers University (1978–83). In 1983, he accepted a position as artist in residence and director of jazz studies at Duke University; a position he held until his retirement in 2003. At Duke, he taught courses on jazz history and arranging while also directing the Duke Jazz Ensemble. He organized the NC/Umbria Jazz Festival and the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival while serving on the NC Council of the Arts and the Durham Arts Council.

In 2009, Jeffrey recorded a tribute to Thelonious Monk with the French label Imago Records distributed by Orkhestra, with Alessandro Collina on piano, Sebastien Adnot on bass and Laurent Sarrien on drums. ---musicians.allaboutjazz.com

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