Blue Note
Fancy Free
| Recorded | 1969 |
|---|---|
| Label | Blue Note |
| Catalog | BST/84319 |
| Released | 1969 |
| Personnel | 16 credited players |
| Discogs | master 38894 |
The record
Two drummers, two percussionists, two flutes and an electric piano -- Donald Byrd building something a good deal wider than a quintet. Duke Pearson produced the date and plays the electric piano, Jimmy Ponder's guitar keeps the vamps rolling, and Frank Foster and Julian Priester fill out the horns behind Byrd's trumpet. Four tracks, room to stretch in each. Blue Note BST/84319.
Tracks
- Fancy Free
- I Love The Girl
- The Uptowner
- Weasil
Session personnel
- Louis Delsarte — Artwork [Cover]
- Roland Wilson — Bass
- Joe Chambers — Drums
- Leo Morris — Drums
- Duke Pearson — Electric Piano
- Jerry Dodgion — Flute
- Lew Tabackin — Flute
- Jimmy Ponder — Guitar
- Rudy Van Gelder — Lacquer Cut By
- Nat Hentoff — Liner Notes
- John Robinson (13) — Percussion
- Nat Bettis — Percussion
- Duke Pearson — Producer
- Frank Foster — Tenor Saxophone
- Julian Priester — Trombone
- Donald Byrd — Trumpet
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
The earliest-flagged row is a 1969 German pressing, BST 84 319 K, but the US Blue Note BST 84319 is from the same year and carries an RVG stamp -- that is the copy to look for. Everything after is a reissue: 1970, then 1973 and 1975 Research Craft and All Disc pressings of the same number, Japan's 1979 GXK 8141, and a 2018 club edition, B0028724-01.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 24 pressings on file.
| 1969 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file · RVG stamp |
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| 1969 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1969 | Blue Note · BST/84319 — Vinyl LP Album Stereo |
| 1969 | Blue Note · BST 84 319 K — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1969 | Liberty · 9011 — 8-Track Cartridge, Album, Stereo |
| 1969 | Blue Note · BST/84319 — Reel-To-Reel, 3 ¾ ips, 4-Track Stereo, Album |
| 1970 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
| 1973 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Research Craft Pressing |
| 1973 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, All Disc Pressing |
| 1975 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Research Craft Pressing |
| 1975 | Blue Note · BST 84319 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
| 1979 | Blue Note · GXK 8141 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
| 1979 | Blue Note · GXK 8141 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue |
| 1993 | Blue Note · CDP 0777 7 89796 2 3 — CD, Album, Reissue |
Follow the players
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