Color Changes

by Clark Terry

Color Changes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1961
  • Label: Candid
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 42:01
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Color Changes' was recorded for the Candid label, featuring trumpeter Clark Terry leading a septet that included Yusef Lateef. The session utilized unusual instrumentation, such as the English horn and French horn, to explore varied textural and harmonic combinations within a hard bop framework.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Blue Waltz (La Valse Bleue) (6:37)
  2. Brother Terry (3:55)
  3. Flutin' And Fluglin' (6:43)
  4. No Problem (5:48)
  5. La Rive Gauche (5:27)
  6. Nahstye Blues (6:01)
  7. Chat Qui P猫che (A Cat That Fishes) (7:27)

Credits

  • Clark Terry - primary artist, trumpet, flugelhorn, leader, written-by
  • Al Cohn - arranged by
  • Budd Johnson - arranged by, piano
  • Joe Benjamin - bass
  • Ed Shaughnessy - drums
  • Julius Watkins - french horn
  • Tommy Flanagan - piano
  • Seldon Powell - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, english horn, written-by, arranged by
  • Jimmy Knepper - trombone
  • Bob Wilber - written-by
  • Duke Jordan - written-by

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