A bebop-Latin blues head with a bass solo break in the seventh and eighth measures. We have a guitar 2nd part and Condensed Score for the recorded arrangement.
A bebop-style blues head with plenty of sly side-slips. The rhythm section plays a Latin groove on the head, slightly swung on the recording. In the seventh and eighth measures there's a solo "break" for the bass; the drums continue here in the recording but could drop out instead.
In addition to our lead sheet, we have a guitar second part and Concert Condensed Score reflecting the recording. The tenor sax and guitar play most of the melody in unison, harmonizing in thirds in the 4th and 11th measures and finishing the melody in octaves. This score and guitar part include Peter Washington's bass break from the first time chorus of the in head.
"The Shadow Of Your Smile" was the first release on the Japanese record label Birds. Grant Stewart has released two other Birds albums so far, including 2008's "Recado Bossa Nova" which features the same lineup as this album except with Joe Cohn on guitar replacing Peter Bernstein.
Pianist Tardo Hammer has played on nine of Grant Stewart's albums so far. The two first recorded together in 2004 on trumpeter John Marshall's album "Frisky."
A swinging tenor saxophonist, Grant Stewart is a powerful, expressive stylist in today's jazz scene. Born in Toronto, Stewart's early exposure to giants like Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins came from his father, an English teacher and semi-professional guitarist. By the age of 14 Grant was so advanced on the alto saxophone that he began playing professionally in the Pete Schofield Big Band. At 17, he made the switch to tenor and starting playing with some of his greatest influences in the Toronto jazz scene, Pat LaBarbera and Bob Mover. (He still does play alto saxophone to this day, but his love of artists like John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins encouraged him to make tenor his primary instrument.) Read more...
