More Blues and the Abstract Truth [SEP] performer
More Blues and the Abstract Truth
More Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American jazz composer, conductor and arranger Oliver Nelson featuring performances recorded in 1964 for the Impulse! label.
Reception.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "Unlike the original classic "Blues and the Abstract Truth" set from three years earlier, Oliver Nelson does not play on this album. He did contribute three of the eight originals and all of the arrangements but his decision not to play is
using a 16-bar minor blues for the A section, stretching the form to a total of 56 bars. The B-side of the album contains three tracks that hew closer to the 12-bar form: "Yearnin'", "Butch and Butch" and "Teenie's Blues" (which opens with two 12-bar choruses of bass solo by Chambers).
Nelson's later album, "More Blues and the Abstract Truth" (1964), features an entirely different (and larger) group of musicians and bears little