Barefoot Adventure (Remastered Edition) Bud Shank

• 1 Barefoot Adventure 04:12
• 2 Shoeless Beach Meeting 04:08
• 3 Jungle Cruise 04:45
• 4 How High the Makaha 03:11
• 5 Well, 'Pon My Soul 04:14
• 6 Ala Moana 02:15
• 7 Bruce Is Loose 03:24
• 8 Dance of the Sea Monsters 04:08
• Total Runtime 30:17

Info zu Barefoot Adventure (Remastered Edition)

Featuring original compositions arranged by Shank for Bruce Brown’s surf film of the same name, this is a swinging, hard-driving jazz session by six top-flight session players at the height of their careers: Bud Shank (alto and baritone), Bob Cooper (tenor), Carmell Jones (trumpet), Dennis Budimir (guitar), Gary Peacock (bass), Shelly Manne (drums).

The original Pacific Jazz recording features excellent sonics, precise soundstage, and wide dynamics while showcasing Shank’s elegant playing at its most adventurous, playing with supreme confidence and sophistication.

Filmmaker Bruce Brown was best known for his documentaries that surveyed the lifestyles of the surfers he first became enamored with in the mid-Fifties while stationed in the Navy at Honolulu, Hawaii. His 1964 film, The Endless Summer, became a cult classic, but three years prior to its release, he had completed the film Barefoot Adventure, and enlisted Bud Shank to compose the film's soundtrack music. Bruce Brown wrote the liner notes for the album, and he details the process of meeting with Bud Shank to discuss his ideas for the film: "Bud and I ran through the entire film; once, twice, three times, and again…and again. The film kept Bud's eyes busy, I kept his ears busy with continuous information. All the while he was making notes that would eventually become the basis for the music itself. … Bud asked questions like…"what exactly did you have in mind in the way of music?" My answer was: "Well…exciting, but not too exciting, slightly happy…yet sad and ominous." Bud took a few more notes as I peeked over his shoulder. He wrote: "dirty, churchy, medium funky blues/semi wig out." I didn't want to appear illiterate but I sure hoped we meant the same thing.

Bud Shank enlisted a sextet of mostly stable mates at Pacific Jazz for the recording, which according to Brown's liner notes was done in a five-hour period in a single night in November, 1961. The complement of players featured Shank on alto and baritone saxes, Bob Cooper on tenor sax, Carmell Jones on trumpet, Dennis Budimir on guitar, Gary Peacock on bass, and Shelly Manne (on loan from Contemporary Records) behind the drum kit. Bruce Brown continued about the recording session: I sat nervously in the Pacific Jazz recording studios as Richard Bock, the brains behind the operation, set up the microphones. The musicians assembled and prepared to play. I looked up at the acoustic tile ceiling and, without really expecting an answer, muttered "Do you know what dirty, churchy, medium funky blues means?" As the tape was threaded into the machine, I hoped against hope that it meant the same thing as "exciting, but not too exciting, slightly happy…yet sad and ominous." As the group began to play a smile crept across my face that stayed the entire five hours of recording.

"Yeah, I know—big build-up for Cool, West Coast jazz—then Bud Shank and his men totally bring the funk! Guilty as charged, but Cool jazz isn't exclusively relegated to the confines of smoothly effective flute solos that anchor moody pop songs. This album makes me want to take a much deeper dive into West Coast jazz, especially the music of Bud Shank, which I obviously need to hear more of! In the guise of the excellence incarnate presented by this Impex Records release, diving into the deep end is even more of a temptation!" (Tom Gibbs, positive-feedback.com)

"I can only describe the contents of this album as a marriage of high-brow surf music meets hard-boiled detective serial music meets beatnik coffee klatch music meets Bossa Nova! And it's so out of left field that I absolutely love it! Barefoot Adventure is dripping with more style and personality per groove rotation than anything else I've come across in a long time. Sonically, Impex has done a stellar job on this release. The vinyl has a stone-quiet background, and the dynamics and dimensions of the music are outstanding given the period. A sonically satisfying and just plain fun listen. If jazz and or the surf genre seem at all interesting to you, go grab yours now!" (Carlo Lo Raso)

Gary Peacock, double bass
Bud Shank, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
Shelly Manne, drums
Dennis Budimir, guitar
Bob Cooper, tenor saxophone
Carmell Jones, trumpet

Digitally remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Bud Shank
has been an integral member of the international jazz scene for 60 years. A respected saxophonist, composer, and arranger, his soaring dynamic performances have enlivened countless concerts, festivals, nightclubs, and recording sessions.

Shank first came to prominence in the big bands of Charlie Barnet and Stan Kenton during the late 1940s. In the 1950s the saxophonist began a long tenure with Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars, as well as work with his own quartet. A charter member of the "West Coast" jazz movement, Shank's cool but always strongly swinging sound has made him one of a handful of sax players with an instantly recognizable and always exciting sound. In addition to club and concert dates this period found the musician producing some 50 diverse albums.

During the next two decades Shank augmented his club, university, and festival appearances with a healthy amount of studio work. A first call alto sax and flute player, he was a four-time winner of the coveted Most Valuable Player award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

In the 1970s and 80s Shank joined with Ray Brown, Jeff Hamilton, and Laurindo Almeida to form the world-renowned LA Four, who recorded and toured extensively through the decade. Shank helped to popularize both Latin-flavored and chamber jazz music, and as a musician's musician also performed with orchestras as diverse as the Royal Philharmonic, the New American Orchestra, the Gerald Wilson Big Band, Stan Kenton's Neophonic Orchestra, and the legendary Duke Ellington.

In the 1990s Shank continued to grow and explore, creating the multi-media jazz performance, "The Lost Cathedral," expanding the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop and Jazz Southwest Festival in Albuquerque, and touring with his quartet and sextet. Both bands feature exemplary writing, tight and fiery playing, and a joyous sense of collaboration.

Today, Bud Shank juggles a packed schedule of touring, festivals, and teaching combined with select major club performances and time set aside for composing and arranging. He is in demand as a clinician, and is available in a duo, as leader of his own quartet and sextet, and as a feature soloist with orchestra or big band, or with all star groups. With over 60 years as a professional jazz musician, Bud Shank has more than earned his status as a legend.

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