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description: Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.He is perhaps best remembered for his groundbreaking 1961 Impu ...

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.[1]

He is perhaps best remembered for his groundbreaking 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth, widely regarded as one of the most significant American jazz recordings of the modern jazz era. The album features the definitive version of the jazz standard "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the early 1960s are More Blues and the Abstract Truth and Sound Pieces, both also on Impulse!.[2]

Songs:

01 Flowers On The Wall《Oliver Nelson ..》309
02 Beautiful Music《Oliver Nelson ..》243
03 Groove《Taking Care O..》153
04 Cascades《The Blues and..》103
05 Alto-Itis album version《Screamin' The..》120
06 The Lady From Girl Talk《Sound Pieces》111
07 Once Upon A Time《Oliver Nelson ..》34
08 Blues for M.F. 《Soul Battle》10
09 Yesterday《Oliver Nelson ..》57
10 Stolen Moments《Impulsive Unmi..》50
11 Hobo Flats《Acid Jazz - Ve..》3
12 Creole Love Call《Swing Classics》7
13 The Six Million Dollar ..《All-Time Top ..》1
14 Soul Street [*]《Soul Battle》12
15 In Passing《Soul Battle》4
16 Perdido《Soul Battle》5
17 Anacruses《Soul Battle》4
18 In A Japanese Garden《Skull Session》16
19 Baja Bossa《Skull Session》54
20 Dumpy Mama《Skull Session》11
21 125Th St. And 7Th A..《Skull Session》25
22 Skull Session《Skull Session》15
23 One For Duke《Skull Session》14
24 Flight For Freedom《Skull Session》5
25 Reuben'S Rondo《Skull Session》10

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Biography
Early life and career

Oliver Nelson was born into a musical family. His brother was a saxophonist who played with Cootie Williams in the 1940s, and his sister sang and played piano. Nelson began learning to play the piano when he was six and started on the saxophone at eleven. Beginning in 1947 he played in "territory" bands in and around Saint Louis before joining the Louis Jordan band where he stayed from 1950 to 1951, playing alto saxophone and arranging.[3][4]

In 1952 Nelson underwent military service in the Marines playing woodwinds in the 3rd Division band in Japan and Korea. It was in Japan that Nelson attended a concert by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and heard Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite and Paul Hindemith's Symphony in E Flat. Nelson later recalled that this was the "First time that I had heard really modern music, for back in St. Louis I hadn't even known that negroes were allowed to go to concerts, I realised everything didn't have to sound like Beethoven or Brahms...It was then that I decided to become a composer".[5]

Nelson returned to Missouri to study music composition and theory at Washington and Lincoln Universities, graduating with a master's degree in 1958. Nelson also studied with composers Elliott Carter, Robert Wykes and George Tremblay.[5][3]

While back in his hometown of St. Louis, he met and married Eileen Mitchell; the couple had a son, Oliver Nelson Jr., but soon divorced. After graduation, Nelson married St. Louis native Audrey McEwen, a union which lasted until his death and produced a son, Nyles.

After completing his degree Nelson moved to New York, playing with Erskine Hawkins and Wild Bill Davis, and working as the house arranger for the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He also played on the West Coast briefly with the Louie Bellson big band in 1959, and in the same year began recording for Prestige Records as the leader of various small groups. From 1960 to 1961 he briefly played with Count Basie and Duke Ellington and then joined the Quincy Jones big band playing tenor saxophone, both in the U.S. and on tour in Europe.[3]
Breakthrough and afterwards

After six albums as leader between 1959 and 1961 for the Prestige label (with such musicians as Kenny Dorham, Johnny Hammond Smith, Eric Dolphy, Roy Haynes, King Curtis and Jimmy Forrest), Nelson's big breakthrough came with The Blues and the Abstract Truth, this made his name as a composer and arranger, and he went on to record a number notable of big-band albums including Afro-American Sketches and Full Nelson.[3]

He worked as an arranger on large ensemble albums for Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Hodges, Wes Montgomery, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Smith, Billy Taylor, Stanley Turrentine, Irene Reid, Gene Ammons and many others. He also led all-star big bands in various live performances between 1966 and 1975. Nelson continued to perform as a soloist during this period, focusing primarily on soprano saxophone.

In 1967 Nelson moved to Los Angeles to be near the television and movie industry and began composing background music for television and films. Television projects included Ironside, Night Gallery, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar Man and Longstreet. Films scored by Nelson include Death of a Gunfighter and Zig Zag.[4] He also arranged Gato Barbieri's music for Last Tango in Paris and Sonny Rollins' music for Alfie. During this time he also arranged and produced albums for pop stars such as Nancy Wilson, James Brown, the Temptations, and Diana Ross.

Along with his big-band appearances (in Berlin, Montreux, New York, and Los Angeles), he toured West Africa with a small group. Less well-known is the fact that Nelson composed several symphonic works, and was also deeply involved in jazz education, returning to his alma mater, Washington University, in the summer of 1969 to lead a five-week-long clinic that also featured such guest performers as Phil Woods, Mel Lewis, Thad Jones, Sir Roland Hanna, and Ron Carter.

Finally succumbing to the intense pressures of the Hollywood studios, Nelson died of a heart attack on 28 October 1975 at the age of 43.[4]
Discography
As leader

Prestige Records

    1959: Meet Oliver Nelson
    1960: Taking Care of Business
    1960: Screamin' the Blues
    1960: Nocturne
    1960: Soul Battle with King Curtis and Jimmy Forrest
    1961: Straight Ahead
    1961: Main Stem
    1962: Afro/American Sketches

Impulse! Records

    1961: The Blues and the Abstract Truth
    1964: More Blues and the Abstract Truth
    1966: Oliver Nelson Plays Michelle
    1966: Sound Pieces
    1966: Happenings with Hank Jones
    1967: The Spirit of '67 with Pee Wee Russell
    1967: The Kennedy Dream
    1967: Live from Los Angeles
    1968: Soulful Brass with Steve Allen

Verve Records

    1963: Full Nelson
    1966: Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz
    1966: Leonard Feather Presents the Sound of Feeling and the Sound of Oliver Nelson
    1967: Jazzhattan Suite

Flying Dutchman Records

    1968: Soulful Brass No. 2
    1969: Black Brown and Beautiful
    1970: The Mayor and the People
    1970: Berlin Dialogue for Orchestra
    1970: Leon Thomas In Berlin with Oliver Nelson
    1971: Swiss Suite
    1974: In London with Oily Rags
    1975: Skull Session
    1976: A Dream Deferred

Other labels

    1962: Impressions of Phaedra (United Artists)
    1964: Fantabulous (Argo)
    1975: Stolen Moments (East Wind Records/Inner City Records)

As arranger

With Cannonball Adderley

    Domination (Capitol, 1965)

With Air Pocket

    Fly On (East Wind Records, 1975)

With Gene Ammons

    Soul Summit Vol. 2 (Prestige, 1961 [1962])
    Late Hour Special (Prestige, 1961 [1964])
    Velvet Soul (Prestige, 1961 [1964])

With Count Basie

    Afrique (Flying Dutchman, 1970)

With Mel Brown

    Chicken Fat (Impulse!, 1967)

With Ray Brown and Milt Jackson

    Ray Brown / Milt Jackson (Verve, 1965)

With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

    Trane Whistle (Prestige, 1960)

With Art Farmer

    Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (Mercury, 1962)

With Jimmy Forrest

    Soul Street (New Jazz, 1962)

With Etta Jones

    From the Heart (Prestige, 1962)

With Ramsey Lewis

    Country Meets the Blues (Argo, 1962)

With Carmen McRae

    Portrait of Carmen (Atlantic, 1967)

With Shirley Scott

    For Members Only (Impulse!, 1963)
    Great Scott!! (Impulse!, 1964)
    Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse!, 1966)

With Jimmy Smith

    Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith (Verve, 1962)
    Hobo Flats (Verve, 1963)
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Verve, 1964)
    Monster (Verve, 1965)
    Peter & the Wolf (Verve, 1966)
    Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo (with Wes Montgomery) (Verve, 1966)

With Wes Montgomery

    Goin' Out of My Head (Verve, 1965)

With Billy Taylor

    Right Here, Right Now! (Capitol Records, 1963)

With Clark Terry

    Clark Terry Plays the Jazz Version of All American (Moodsville, 1962)

With Frank Wess

    Southern Comfort (Prestige, 1962)

As sideman

With Cannonball Adderley

    African Waltz (Riverside, 1961)

With Manny Albam

    Jazz Goes to the Movies (Impulse!, 1962)

With Louis Bellson

    The Brilliant Bellson Sound (Verve, 1959)

With Chris Conner

    Free Spirits (Atlantic, 1962)

With Duke Ellington

    Paris Blues (United Artists, 1962)

With Red Garland

    Soul Burnin' (Prestige, 1961)
    Rediscovered Masters, Vol. 2 (Prestige 1961)

With J.J. Johnson

    J.J.! (RCA Victor, 1965)

With Etta Jones

    Something Nice (Prestige, 1960 [1961])
    Hollar! (Prestige, 1960 [1963])

With Quincy Jones

    I Dig Dancers (Mercury, 1960)
    The Quintessence (Impulse!, 1961)
    The Pawnbroker (Mercury, 1965)

With Mundell Lowe

    Satan in High Heels (soundtrack) (Charlie Parker, 1961)

With Gary McFarland

    How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Verve, 1961)

With Joe Newman

    Live at "Count Basie's" (Mercury, 1961)

With Shirley Scott

    Blue Seven (Prestige, 1961)

With Johnny "Hammond" Smith

    Talk That Talk (New Jazz, 1960)

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