Oliver Nelson
The Blues And The Abstract Truth (LP)
LabelImpulse!GenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (edges wear)
Gatefold sleeve.
February 1961, Van Gelder's studio, one session, and a record that has never once fallen out of favour. Oliver Nelson wrote all of it and assembled a septet that should not have worked as well as it did: Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard supplying the fire, Bill Evans at the piano supplying something entirely different, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes underneath. "Stolen Moments" became a standard within a few years and remains one of the most perfect jazz compositions of the era. Nelson's arranging is the real achievement: seven instruments made to sound like a much larger band without ever getting heavy.
Original Impulse! pressing, gatefold. On every serious list, and it earns the position.
Release notes
Circa 1974-1979 stereo repress with green/blue/purple concentric circle ABC Impulse labels having catalog number AS-5. Non-glossy gatefold cover is still branded Impulse only, with A-5 catalog number. Recorded 23 February, 1961
| A1 | Stolen Moments | 8:45 | |
| A2 | Hoe Down | 4:43 | |
| A3 | Cascades | 5:30 | |
| B1 | Yearnin' | 6:20 | |
| B2 | Butch And Butch | 4:35 | |
| B3 | Teenie's Blues | 6:31 |
- Eric Dolphy
- Alto Saxophone, Flute
- Oliver Nelson
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Arranged By, Composed By, Liner Notes
- George Barrow
- Baritone Saxophone
- Paul Chambers
- Bass
- Robert Flynn
- Design [Cover]
- Joe Lebow
- Design [Liner]
- Roy Haynes
- Drums
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Engineer
- Pete Turner
- Photography By [Cover]
- Audrey Nelson
- Photography By [Liner]
- Bill Evans
- Piano
- Creed Taylor
- Producer
- Freddie Hubbard
- Trumpet
