Herb Ellis & Remo Palmier - Windflower (Vinyl LP - 2025 - Original)
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Description
Originally released on the Concord label,
this masterful 1978 meeting of jazz guitar
giants has quietly become one of the most
collectible albums of its era. Herb Ellis
and Remo Palmier (a.k.a Palmieri) were
contemporaries in the red-hot NYC jazz
scene of the '40s, but they arrived at this
recording through very different routes.
Ellis’ reputation steadily grew as he went
from being a sideman in the Glen Gray
and Jimmy Dorsey orchestras to being a
mainstay in the Oscar Peterson Trio in the
'50s, and later playing in a guitar trio with
Barney Kessel and Charlie Byrd. Palmier,
on the other hand, got his career off to a blazing start,
playing with Coleman Hawkins before appearing on seminal bebop sides (e.g.
“Groovin’ High”) with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. But then, health issues
intervened, and Palmier spent the next three decades or so working a staff job at
CBS for The Arthur Godfrey Show. Finally, after the show was canceled, Palmier re-
entered jazz circles but never really recorded much, which only makes Windflower
that much more of a treasure. “Sublime” is the word that springs to our mind, but
you can substitute your own superlative; backed by George Duvivier on bass and
Ron Traxler on drums, Ellis and Palmier bring an organic sense of swing, beautifully-
voiced chords, and lyrical lead lines to such fare as “The Night Has a Thousand
Eyes,” “Groove Merchant,” and even “Danny Boy.” Produced by Concord label
founder Carl Jefferson, pressed on black vinyl.
Trackliste
A1 Windflower
A2 The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
A3 My Foolish Heart
A4 Close Your Eyes
A5 Danny Boy
A6 Walkin
A7 Stardust
A8 Triste
A9 Groove Merchant
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