Fourth Floor Walk-up

Bill Watrous · 1974 · Plage la plus longue de l'album, pour big band

Context

Opener of side B of Manhattan Wildlife Refuge (Columbia, 1974), a piece of nearly ten minutes. The record brings together a large ensemble of saxophones, trombones and trumpets with Dick Hyman on keyboards.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Modern big bands, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Modern big bands: Swing, big bands, Third stream.

By the same artist

• Zip City (1974)
• Dichotomy (1974)
• Ayo (1974)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com
• syncopatedtimes.com

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