Live from Los Angeles
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{{Infobox album
| name = Live from Los Angeles
| type = live
| artist = Oliver Nelson
| cover = live from Los Angeles.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1967
| recorded = June 2–4, 1967
| venue = Marty's on the Hill, Los Angeles, CA
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 38:37
| label = Impulse! A 9153
| producer = Bob Thiele
| chronology = Oliver Nelson
| prev_title = The Kennedy Dream
| prev_year = 1967
| next_title = Jazzhattan Suite
| next_year = 1967
}}
Live from Los Angeles is an album by American jazz composer/arranger Oliver Nelson featuring performances recorded in 1967 for the Impulse! label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/impulse-records/catalog-9100-series/#as-9153 Impulse! Records discography] accessed April 11, 2011
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1071}}
}}
The initial Billboard magazine review from February 1968 wrote that: {{blockquote| "Here's a driving high flying record from start to finish. It's jazz at its exciting best as Nelson's arranging conducting and zippy sax work lead real quality playing...".{{cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |title=Album Reviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA74 |date=24 February 1968 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |pages=74 |issn=0006-2510}}}} The Allmusic review by Douglas Payne awarded the album 2 stars stating: {{blockquote| "Oliver Nelson's live recordings don't seem as sharp as his studio stuff. Good playing, though, from a good group of West Coasters, but nothing exciting happens".Payne, D. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-from-los-angeles-r144590 Allmusic Review] accessed April 11, 2011}}
Track listing
:All compositions by Oliver Nelson except as indicated
- "Miss Fine" – 4:13
- "Milestones" (Miles Davis) – 8:32
- "I Remember Bird" (Leonard Feather) – 5:40
- "Night Train" (Jimmy Forrest, Lewis P. Simpkins, Oscar Washington) – 4:49
- "Guitar Blues" – 4:21
- "Down by the Riverside" – 8:49
- "Ja-Da" (Bob Carleton) – 2:13
:*Recorded at Marty's On The Hill in Los Angeles, California on June 2, 1967 (track 1), June 3, 1967 (track 2) and June 4, 1967 (tracks 3-7).
Personnel
- Oliver Nelson – soprano saxophone, arranger, conductor
- Buddy Childers, Bobby Bryant, Freddy Hill, Conte Candoli – trumpet
- Billy Byers, Pete Myers, Lou Blackburn, Ernie Tack – trombone
- Frank Strozier, Gabe Baltazar – alto saxophone
- Tom Scott, Bill Perkins – tenor saxophone
- Jack Nimitz – baritone saxophone
- Frank Strazzeri – piano
- Mel Brown – guitar (tracks 4 & 5)
- Monty Budwig – bass
- Ed Thigpen – drums
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