(JAZZICAL MOODS has been issued by many labels under many names, including JAZZ EXPERIMENTS OF CHARLES MINGUS and ABSTRACTIONS ironically, the latter title is drawn from Macero's one compositional contribution. A compatriot of Charles Mingus, he was an important part of Mingus's Jazz Composers Workshop, which made two important albums in 19, JAZZICAL MOODS (two Period 10" LPs Bethlehem and Jazztone 12" LPs Fantasy Original Jazz Classics CD) and JAZZ COMPOSERS WORKSHOP (Savoy LP and CD) respectively.
Indeed, starting at a point near the end of the fifties, that production credit line can be found on a lot of Columbia jazz albums - including some of Charles Mingus' most important - replacing that of Columbia's George Avakian.Īvakian was responsible for this, having first brought Macero to Columbia in 1955 to create one half of the LP, WHAT'S NEW? Macero, a student at Juilliard and a jazz saxophonist, was a major contributor to the New York City avant garde jazz scene in the early and mid-fifties. Teo Macero is a name familiar to most students and fans of jazz, if only because they have any number of Miles Davis' Columbia albums with "Produced by Teo Macero" credits. THE BEST OF TEO MACERO ( Stash ST-CD-527)
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