Warne Marsh on "Sweet Georgia Brown" + "Foreground Music"
Release Record, Send Tape was recorded in 1959 and 1960 in New York City, but wasn't released until a decade later, after Warne Marsh mailed a postcard to bassist Peter Ind in England with the aforesaid eponymous message. The album is, for the most part, a collection of Marsh's improvisations on standards, with everything else—save for several piano solos—edited out. Saxophonist Bryan Qu hipped me to the album after I claimed that some of the best Marsh I'd heard wasn't the early '50s stuff, but actually some mid-'70s recordings he'd made in Denmark, collected on Two Not One (particularly the trio sessions with NHOP and Alan Levitt). After hearing Release Record, Send Tape , I was immediately persuaded to reconsider. November 1951 Metronome advertisement Some of the lines on RRST are freakishly long, but in a way they feel even longer than they are because of the density of contour shifts and pivots; phrase for phrase, there's more unexpected and un...