View Full Version : Steve Swallow: question on "Real Book" album


savv
02-15-2007, 12:26 PM
Just got this used for .99 cents!

On track # 3, "Wrong Together" there is a guitar solo. The credits don't give the name of the guitar player. Anybody there know the identity of this "mystery guitarist"?

Thanks for your inputs.

Drybasement
02-15-2007, 01:41 PM
Found this in a review of the album:

"Wrong Together" is a beautiful ballad with a great piano intro by Miller. Swallow solos for the first time on this tune. He plays the head and then a wonderful solo. His playing on this tune is in the high register of the electric bass, so high that it sounds almost like a guitar. His solo shows that he is an incredible composer and bass player. Harrell's solo on this tune is absolutely beautiful. It is extremely melodic and heartfelt. Wonderful playing all the way around on this tune.

savv
02-15-2007, 04:11 PM
Found this in a review of the album:

Drybasement,

Unbelievable!! I was almost fooled into thinking that was a guitar!!
I am now a Steve Swallow convert!

Drybasement
02-15-2007, 04:18 PM
Savv,

I had no idea who Steve Swallow was until I went searching for information on that album. He goes back quite a ways and "Real Book" sounds like something I should investigate. Every day brings something new (to me) on AK's music forum.

Cheers

arrow 68
02-15-2007, 08:01 PM
Played a lot with Carla Bley, and I think her Ex-Husband Paul, just to name a few. I know he recorded with Carla on a few of her ECM releases. They fall under Watt/ECM. Always liked Carla Bley's "Dinner Music". Swallow does not play on that disc though.

gkarelitsky
02-15-2007, 10:40 PM
is on ECM recorded live in Europe with Carla Bley. I bought it used for Lost in the Stars as I like Kurt Weill but it is a nicely recorded cd other nice cuts as well.