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Road Song is an album by the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, released in 1968. It reached number one on the Billboard Jazz album chart and number 39 on the R&B chart. It also reached number 94 on the Billboard 200. It was his final recording before his death of a heart attack on June 15, 1968.
Greg Adams reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "Only the repetition of the title track interferes with enjoying Two for the Road on its own terms as a varied and entertaining album of mostly instrumental music" and praised the "Mantovani-style strings and jazzy horn solos to a surf beat" of "Something for Audrey" and "Congarocka". [2]
Jazz singer Maxine Sullivan recorded "Loch Lomond" on August 6, 1937 (matrix 21472-1; Vocalion-OKeh 364). Sullivan's version was arranged by Claude Thornhill. It inspired countless other acts to start swinging folk songs. [29] It was a career-defining song, and she recorded it 14 times in total.
Chaquico's original recording of his jazz track "Sacred Ground" was included on the original Harley Davidson Road Song Collection in 1994, alongside classic rock songs such as "Born to Be Wild", "Rockin' Down the Highway" and a song by his former band, Jefferson Starship, "Ride the Tiger".
Along with Gaillard's birthdate, his lineage and place of birth are disputed. Many sources state that he was born in Detroit, Michigan, though Gaillard said himself that he was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, [3] of an Afro-Cuban mother called Maria (Mary Gaillard) [4] and a German-Jewish father called Theophilus (Theophilus Rothschild) [4] who worked as a ship's steward.
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The album pays homage to the jazz fusion band The Tony Williams Lifetime, and is named after the song "Via the Spectrum Road" from the 1969 Lifetime recording Emergency!. Bruce served as a personal link to Lifetime, as he participated in the creation of their second album, Turn It Over (1970). [1] [2] [3]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.