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New Music Of Alec Wilder
| Recorded | Jun 12 & Jul 19, 1956 |
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| Label | Riverside Records |
| Catalog | RLP 12-219 |
| Released | 1956 |
| Personnel | 12 credited players |
| Discogs | master 720453 |
The record
Bassoons, French horn, oboe, and flute crowd around Lowe's guitar here, following Alec Wilder's genre-blurring charts into territory closer to classical color than swinging jazz. Recorded for Riverside in '56, it plays more like one of Wilder's own octet sessions than a guitar date.
Session personnel
- Milt Hinton — bass
- Trigger Alpert — bass
- Bernard Garfield — bassoon
- Harold Goltzer — bassoon
- Jimmy Carroll — clarinet, bass clarinet
- Ed Shaughnessy — drums
- Don Hammond — flute
- Jim Buffington — french horn
- John Barrows — french horn
- Mundell Lowe — guitar
- Jerry Roth — oboe
- Joe Wilder — trumpet
Contemporary reception
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Pressings
| 1956 | Riverside Records · RLP 12-219 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · deep groove |
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| 1994 | Riverside Records — MONO |
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