AOTW: Roger Kellaway - COME TO THE MEADOW (SP-3618)

[Captain Bacardi]

The Roger Kellaway Cello Quartet
COME TO THE MEADOW
A&M SP-3618

Released 1974

Format: Vinyl/8-Track/Cassette

Produced by Stephan Goldman

Songs:

• 1. Come to the Meadow - 4:07
  2. Chant D'Amour - 3:10
  3. Ballade - 5:29
  4. Seventide - 5:38
  5. Time - 2:17
  6. Arcades II (Stravinsky in Memoriam) - 5:51
  7. Estero Bench Landscape - 4:27
  8. Mostly on A "D" String - 5:17
  9. Jorjana #7 - 6:27.
  
  All selections composed by Roger Kellaway & published by Eternity Music Corp., ASCAP

Recorded at Capitol Studios "A", November 14, 1973
Engineer: John Wilson

Musicians:
Roger Kellaway - Piano
Edgar Lustgarten - Cello
Chuck Domanico - Bass
Emil Richards - Percussion

Bluthner pianos furnished by Kasimoff
Bluthner Piano Co., Pasadena, California

Graphics & Photography - Tom Wilkes Productions, Inc.


Capt. Bacardi

 

[Captain Bacardi]

This is not neccesarily a jazz album per se, but this is some pretty nice music. I always loved what Kellaway did with this Cello Quartet. Kind of a hip chamber music thing. There is some improvisation here and there. My favorite track is "Mostly On A 'D' String", where Emil Richards turns in a great marimba solo, and everybody gets a bit of solo spotlight. It's albums like this one that made me admire A&M all along.



Capt. Bacardi

 

[Dave]

The Kasimoff Blüthner grand' is about all there is to recommend...

I prefer Kellaway's arranging for other peoples' albums (or song/songs) than an album of him doing this sort of thing...

Otherwise gimme something that's more "jazz"...



Dave