Jazz At Monterey - Virgil Gonsalves

 

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Jazz At Monterey

Virgil Gonsalves 

Big Band Plus Six

Produced by David Hubert and Virgil Gonsalves

Cover Photo by Eugene Anthony/American

Omega OSL-47

1959

Personnel:

Virgil Gonsalves, Jerry Cournoyer Big Band

Bob Davidson - Alto Saxophone

Lew Wright - Alto Saxophone 

Danny Patiris - Tenor Saxophone

Chuck Peterson - Tenor Saxophone 

Virgil Gonsalves - Baritone Saxophone

John Coppola, Billy Catalano, Dick Mills, Mike Downs, Jerry Cournoyer - Trumpets

Junior Mance - Piano

Merrill Hoover - Piano (A Sunday Kind Of Love)

Eddie Kahn - Bass

Benny Barth - Drums

Virgil Gonsalves Six

Virgil Gonsalves - Baritone Saxophone

Mike Downs - Trumpet

Dan Patiris - Tenor Saxophone

Merrill Hoover - Piano

Eddie Kahn - Bass

Al Randall - Drums

From the back cover: This then, is a man with a musical profession, and these are musicians in constant search for new ideas to explore in an art form known as Jazz Virgil Gonsalves' music upbringing for instance, boasts a wealth of musical education. Born and brought up in Monterey, California, home of the annual west coast Monterey Jazz Festival, of which Virgil was a part, last year, the first. After attending high school and junior college, his studies were continued at San Francisco State, and on to one of the finest music colleges on the west coast, College of the Pacific, as did Dave Brubeck, and other. He as worked with well known bistros such as the Blackhawk, Jazz-Workshop, both in San Francisco, and has already completed two tours with Johnny Mathis. But perhaps more important in that the Virgil Gonsalves conveyance of jazz has not only entertained, but educated at high schools and junior colleges. As Virgil once put it to me, "if jazz is to survive the ensuing years, we must enroll the youth." – Johnny Adams, Jazz D.J. - Radio Station KIDD - Monterey, California

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