Linger Awhile

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共14首歌曲

艺人: Billy Vaughn
语种: 英语
厂牌: Dot
发行时间: 1961年01月01日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

专辑介绍

by Eugene Chadbourne

When it comes to saxophone vibrato, location is everything. If Albert Ayler is halfway to a space station orbiting Venus, Billy Vaughan is the lobby in a Wal-Mart. If Johnny Hodges is like a secluded island on the Adriatic, Billy Vaughan is Virginia Beach at rush hour on a Saturday night in the summer. When Vaughn as bandleader makes an entire reed section thread phrases on his spindle, the effect is like cutting off blood circulation with a taut strip of plastic, although not nearly as kinky. It might be the rhythm arrangements on this album and not the saxophone playing that will chill the blood of a listener. Those unfamiliar with the Muzak aesthetic of hi-fi Amerikkka will wonder just how Billy Vaughan scored an entire series of hits during the height of the rock & roll era no less, indicating that somebody out there liked his style of music. The best tracks are like arriving in a bad neighborhood, parking, and then walking back to the car to lock all the doors. These sometimes lead into performances that bump along to a kind of oompah beat, indeed little factories of curiosity, suitable as background music to nothing more than a bratwurst-buying spree, although that might be plenty in some circumstances. An electric guitarist, uncredited like everyone who had anything to do with these dozen performances, plays with such precision that his solos could pass for a brake job on a $16,000 sports car. "The Hucklebuck," a famous statement of "saxophona Americana" referencing both the wings of Charlie "Bird" Parker and the greasy footprints of a dozen R&B bar-walkers, is rendered as funky as an RSVP card by the Vaughan treatment. This naturally leads to "Under the Double Eagle," the saxophone section slurping the strident saloon step into submission. "Linger Awhile" over Billy Vaughan, indeed: he is the man who can change hot salsa to mild simply by putting on his saxophone strap. Speaking of Linger Awhile, performers have done just that with this album title, based on a popular romantic ballad. The Billy Vaughan album of this title -- and it is essential to use his full name to identify it, since Sarah Vaughan also has an album with the same title -- is one of more than a dozen recordings entitled Linger Awhile that have been released.