| Andy Bey — The World According To Andy Bey (2013) |
Andy Bey — The World According To Andy Bey
Ξ A light jazz singer with a rich, full voice, a good command of blues and bop mechanics, and a solid social message to boot.
Born: October 28, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Also Known As: Andrew W. Bey
Location: Bronx, the East Village and the Upper West Side, New York
Album release: March 21, 2013
Recorded: at Trading 8s Recording Studio, Paramus, NJ on March 21, 2013
Record Label: HighNote (HCD 7253)
Duration: 50:36
Tracks:
01. It Never Entered My Mind 5:27
02. But Not For Me 6:08
03. Dedicated to Miles 3:22
04. The Demons Are After You 6:47
05. Love is Here to stay 4:03
06. There's So Many Ways to approach the Blues 6:09
07. The Joint is Jumpin' 2:32
08. Being Part of What's Happening Now 4:45
09. The Morning After 3:57
10. 'S Womderful 2:07
11. Dissertation on the State of Bliss 5:19
Written by:
Ξ Track 01: Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Ξ Track 02: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Ξ Track 03: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 04: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 05: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Ξ Track 06: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 07: J.C. Johnson / Andy Razaf / Fats Waller
Ξ Track 08: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 09: Harold Arlen
Ξ Track 10: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Ξ Track 11: Harold Arlen / Ira Gershwin
CREDITS:
Ξ Harold Arlen Composer
Ξ Andy Bey Composer, Piano, Producer, Quotation Author, Vocals
Ξ Donald Elfman Liner Notes
Ξ Joe Fields Executive Producer
Ξ George Gershwin Composer
Ξ Ira Gershwin Composer
Ξ Lorenz Hart Composer
Ξ J.C. Johnson Composer
Ξ Katherine Miller Assistant, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Ξ Alan Nahigian Photography
Ξ Andy Razaf Composer
Ξ Richard Rodgers Composer
Ξ Fats Waller Composer
Ξ Brad Wrolstad Design
Editorial Reviews:
Ξ Here is the under-recorded vocalist Andy Bey, backed only by his own piano playing — which at one time, propelled the bands of Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Cecil Taylor and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis — singing with a luxuriant, mature approach that pulls no punches. His delivery is totally unique. He has a message to get out, a story to tell and tell it he does. Featuring four of his own intensely personal compositions the set list is as thought-provoking as it is satisfying, just like Andy Bey himself.
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Ξ Andy Bey — vocalist, pianist, composer — could be called a late bloomer. He's been performing professionally since he was a kid, but much of his long career flew under the press radar. Now he's reaping real recognition, copping the Jazz Journalists Association award for best male jazz singer three times in the last few years while his work inspires the high priests of jazz criticism to florid prose. So here is Andy Bey, backed only by his own piano playing — which at one time, propelled the bands of Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Cecil Taylor and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis — singing with a luxuriant, mature approach that pulls no punches. His delivery is totally unique. He has a message to get out, a story to tell and tell it he does. Á Featuring four of his own intensely personal compositions the set list is as thought-provoking as it is satisfying, just like Andy Bey himself.
Artist Biography by Alex Henderson
Ξ Experience and Judgment One of the great unsung heroes of jazz singing, Andy Bey is a commanding interpreter of lyrics who has a wide vocal range and a big, rich, full voice. Bey enjoys a small following that swears by him; nonetheless, he isn't nearly as well known as he should be. Born and raised in Newark, NJ, not far from New York, Bey was exposed to jazz as a child and started singing in front of local audiences as early as eight. At some gigs, an eight-year-old Bey was accompanied by tenor sax great Hank Mobley. Bey was 13 when, in 1952, he recorded his first solo album, Mama's Little Boy's Got the Blues; and he was 17 when he formed Andy & the Bey Sisters with his siblings Salome and Geraldine in 1956. The group did a 16-month tour of Europe and recorded three albums (one for RCA Victor in 1961, two for Prestige in 1964 and 1965) before breaking up in 1967. In the 1960s and 1970s, Bey's vocals were featured by Max Roach, Duke Pearson, and Gary Bartz (for whom he delivered very socio-political lyrics, including some searing condemnations of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War). The 1970s also found Bey recording Experience and Judgment for Atlantic and beginning a long association with pianist Horace Silver, who featured him prominently on many of the religious-themed albums he put out own his own Silveto label in the 1970s and 1980s. The LPs contained what Silver termed "metaphysical self-help music" and preached a sort of religious self-help philosophy that wasn't unlike Reverend Ike's message — unfortunately for Silver and Bey, this approach meant limited distribution and little commercial appeal. Bey continued to work with Silver into the 1990s, when he was featured on Silver's 1993 Columbia date It's Got to Be Funky (which marked a return to hard bop's mainstream and did much better commercially than his "self-help music"). Labels Bey recorded for as a leader in the 1980s and 1990s included Jazzette, Zagreb, and Evidence, which, in 1996, released the superb Ballads, Blues and Bey. The success of Blues, Ballads and Bey set-up a position for the pianist to stretch out a little and explore his more intimate side. Bey followed with Shades of Bey in 1998 and Tuesdays in Chinatown in 2001, choosing to explore outside the world of jazz with covers of Nick Drake and Milton Nascimento and others. American Song followed in early 2004.
Discography:
Ξ Now! Hear! (Prestige, 1964) with Jerome Richardson, Kenny Burrell — (with Bey Sisters)
Ξ Round Midnight (Prestige, 1965) with Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson — (with Bey Sisters)
Ξ Experience and Judgement (Atlantic, 1974)
Ξ As Time Goes By (live) (Jazzette, 1991)
Ξ Ballads, Blues and Bey (Evidence, 1996)
Ξ Shades of Bey (Evidence, 1998)
Ξ Tuesdays in Chinatown (Encoded Music, 2001)
Ξ Chillin' (solo, Minor Music 2003)
Ξ American Song (Savoy Jazz, 2004)
Ξ Ain't Necessarily So (12thStreet, 2007)
Ξ The World According to Andy Bey (Highnote, 2013)
With Max Roach:
Ξ Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968)
Biography by David R. Adler: http://jazztimes.com/articles/14617-andy-bey
© Photo credit: Jan Persson & CDJ / Andy Bey, The Opera Copenhagen, July 10, 2006
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| Andy Bey — The World According To Andy Bey (2013) |
Andy Bey — The World According To Andy Bey
© Photo credit: Jan Persson & CDJ / Andy Bey, The Opera Copenhagen, July 10, 2006
Ξ A light jazz singer with a rich, full voice, a good command of blues and bop mechanics, and a solid social message to boot.
Born: October 28, 1939 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Also Known As: Andrew W. Bey
Location: Bronx, the East Village and the Upper West Side, New York
Album release: March 21, 2013
Recorded: at Trading 8s Recording Studio, Paramus, NJ on March 21, 2013
Record Label: HighNote (HCD 7253)
Duration: 50:36
Tracks:
01. It Never Entered My Mind 5:27
02. But Not For Me 6:08
03. Dedicated to Miles 3:22
04. The Demons Are After You 6:47
05. Love is Here to stay 4:03
06. There's So Many Ways to approach the Blues 6:09
07. The Joint is Jumpin' 2:32
08. Being Part of What's Happening Now 4:45
09. The Morning After 3:57
10. 'S Womderful 2:07
11. Dissertation on the State of Bliss 5:19
Written by:
Ξ Track 01: Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Ξ Track 02: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Ξ Track 03: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 04: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 05: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Ξ Track 06: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 07: J.C. Johnson / Andy Razaf / Fats Waller
Ξ Track 08: Andy Bey
Ξ Track 09: Harold Arlen
Ξ Track 10: George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Ξ Track 11: Harold Arlen / Ira Gershwin
CREDITS:
Ξ Harold Arlen Composer
Ξ Andy Bey Composer, Piano, Producer, Quotation Author, Vocals
Ξ Donald Elfman Liner Notes
Ξ Joe Fields Executive Producer
Ξ George Gershwin Composer
Ξ Ira Gershwin Composer
Ξ Lorenz Hart Composer
Ξ J.C. Johnson Composer
Ξ Katherine Miller Assistant, Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Ξ Alan Nahigian Photography
Ξ Andy Razaf Composer
Ξ Richard Rodgers Composer
Ξ Fats Waller Composer
Ξ Brad Wrolstad Design
Editorial Reviews:
Ξ Here is the under-recorded vocalist Andy Bey, backed only by his own piano playing — which at one time, propelled the bands of Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Cecil Taylor and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis — singing with a luxuriant, mature approach that pulls no punches. His delivery is totally unique. He has a message to get out, a story to tell and tell it he does. Featuring four of his own intensely personal compositions the set list is as thought-provoking as it is satisfying, just like Andy Bey himself.
________________________________________________________________
Ξ Andy Bey — vocalist, pianist, composer — could be called a late bloomer. He's been performing professionally since he was a kid, but much of his long career flew under the press radar. Now he's reaping real recognition, copping the Jazz Journalists Association award for best male jazz singer three times in the last few years while his work inspires the high priests of jazz criticism to florid prose. So here is Andy Bey, backed only by his own piano playing — which at one time, propelled the bands of Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Cecil Taylor and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis — singing with a luxuriant, mature approach that pulls no punches. His delivery is totally unique. He has a message to get out, a story to tell and tell it he does. Á Featuring four of his own intensely personal compositions the set list is as thought-provoking as it is satisfying, just like Andy Bey himself.
Artist Biography by Alex Henderson
Ξ Experience and Judgment One of the great unsung heroes of jazz singing, Andy Bey is a commanding interpreter of lyrics who has a wide vocal range and a big, rich, full voice. Bey enjoys a small following that swears by him; nonetheless, he isn't nearly as well known as he should be. Born and raised in Newark, NJ, not far from New York, Bey was exposed to jazz as a child and started singing in front of local audiences as early as eight. At some gigs, an eight-year-old Bey was accompanied by tenor sax great Hank Mobley. Bey was 13 when, in 1952, he recorded his first solo album, Mama's Little Boy's Got the Blues; and he was 17 when he formed Andy & the Bey Sisters with his siblings Salome and Geraldine in 1956. The group did a 16-month tour of Europe and recorded three albums (one for RCA Victor in 1961, two for Prestige in 1964 and 1965) before breaking up in 1967. In the 1960s and 1970s, Bey's vocals were featured by Max Roach, Duke Pearson, and Gary Bartz (for whom he delivered very socio-political lyrics, including some searing condemnations of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War). The 1970s also found Bey recording Experience and Judgment for Atlantic and beginning a long association with pianist Horace Silver, who featured him prominently on many of the religious-themed albums he put out own his own Silveto label in the 1970s and 1980s. The LPs contained what Silver termed "metaphysical self-help music" and preached a sort of religious self-help philosophy that wasn't unlike Reverend Ike's message — unfortunately for Silver and Bey, this approach meant limited distribution and little commercial appeal. Bey continued to work with Silver into the 1990s, when he was featured on Silver's 1993 Columbia date It's Got to Be Funky (which marked a return to hard bop's mainstream and did much better commercially than his "self-help music"). Labels Bey recorded for as a leader in the 1980s and 1990s included Jazzette, Zagreb, and Evidence, which, in 1996, released the superb Ballads, Blues and Bey. The success of Blues, Ballads and Bey set-up a position for the pianist to stretch out a little and explore his more intimate side. Bey followed with Shades of Bey in 1998 and Tuesdays in Chinatown in 2001, choosing to explore outside the world of jazz with covers of Nick Drake and Milton Nascimento and others. American Song followed in early 2004.
Discography:
Ξ Now! Hear! (Prestige, 1964) with Jerome Richardson, Kenny Burrell — (with Bey Sisters)
Ξ Round Midnight (Prestige, 1965) with Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson — (with Bey Sisters)
Ξ Experience and Judgement (Atlantic, 1974)
Ξ As Time Goes By (live) (Jazzette, 1991)
Ξ Ballads, Blues and Bey (Evidence, 1996)
Ξ Shades of Bey (Evidence, 1998)
Ξ Tuesdays in Chinatown (Encoded Music, 2001)
Ξ Chillin' (solo, Minor Music 2003)
Ξ American Song (Savoy Jazz, 2004)
Ξ Ain't Necessarily So (12thStreet, 2007)
Ξ The World According to Andy Bey (Highnote, 2013)
With Max Roach:
Ξ Members, Don't Git Weary (Atlantic, 1968)
Biography by David R. Adler: http://jazztimes.com/articles/14617-andy-bey
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