Much Brass

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title: "Much Brass" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1959-albums", "riverside-records-albums", "nat-adderley-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Brass" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Much Brass
type	Album
artist	Nat Adderley
cover	Much Brass.jpg
released	1959
recorded	March 23 & 27, 1959
genre	Jazz
length	39:46
label	Riverside
prev_title	Branching Out
prev_year	1958
next_title	Work Song
next_year	1960
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| name = Much Brass | type = Album | artist = Nat Adderley | cover = Much Brass.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = 1959 | recorded = March 23 & 27, 1959 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 39:46 | label = Riverside | producer = | prev_title = Branching Out | prev_year = 1958 | next_title = Work Song | next_year = 1960 Much Brass is an album by jazz cornetist Nat Adderley released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Adderley's Sextet with Slide Hampton, Wynton Kelly, Sam Jones, Laymon Jackson, and Albert Heath.

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars, stating: "Some interesting arrangements here, presumably largely the work of Hampton, and some delicately interwoven playing which largely belies the bluster implied in the title.... Not immediately identifiable as a 'typical' Nat Adderley record, but a beautiful statement all the same." | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = }}

Track listing

:All compositions by Nat Adderley except as indicated

1. "Blue Concept" (Gigi Gryce) - 7:37
2. "Little Miss" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin) - 4:28
3. "Israel" (Johnny Carisi) - 3:53
4. "What Next?" - 3:20
5. "Moving" - 5:03
6. "Blue Brass Groove" (Nat Adderley, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) - 5:39
7. "Accents" - 5:40
8. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 4:06 :*Recorded in New York City on March 23 & 27, 1959

Personnel

• Nat Adderley – cornet
• Slide Hampton – tuba (track 1), trombone (tracks 2–7)
• Wynton Kelly – piano
• Sam Jones – bass (tracks 2–8), cello (track 1)
• Laymon Jackson – bass (track 1), tuba (tracks 2–8)
• Albert Heath – drums

References

References

1. [http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/discography-1959/#590323 Riverside Records discography] accessed February 16, 2010
2. [{{AllMusic
3. Cook, Richard. (2006). "[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]". Penguin.

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