ONE LP PORTRAITS: MUSICIANS: @SCARBOROUGH JF15: Alan Ross: Proprietor Jazz House Records

{quote}It's Oliver Nelson’s 'Blues And The Abstract Truth’. I love it mainly because the music is so wonderful but also because they take the two basic elements of Jazz which is the blues - and I got rhythm, and Nelson's writing is so magnificent it kind of transforms these very basic forms and the quality of the musicians he employs on there - Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans - they're just so superb they bring to the music a life and a vigour that's life affirming and really rather wonderful.{quote}Alan Ross: The Spa Scarborough, 27th September 2015Olive Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth released 1961Jazz House Records, Leicester
Alan Ross: Proprietor Jazz House Records, Oliver Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth

 

"It's Oliver Nelson’s 'Blues And The Abstract Truth’. I love it mainly because the music is so wonderful but also because they take the two basic elements of Jazz which is the blues - and I got rhythm, and Nelson's writing is so magnificent it kind of transforms these very basic forms and the quality of the musicians he employs on there - Freddie Hubbard, Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans - they're just so superb they bring to the music a life and a vigour that's life affirming and really rather wonderful." 

 

Alan Ross: The Spa Scarborough, 27th September 2015 

Olive Nelson: The Blues and the Abstract Truth released 1961 

Jazz House Records, Leicester