Skull Session
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{{Infobox album
| name = Skull Session
| type = Album
| artist = Oliver Nelson
| cover = Skull Session.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1975
| recorded = January 7, 8 & 10, 1975
Los Angeles, CA
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 39:11
| label = Flying Dutchman BDL 1-0825
| producer = Bob Thiele
| chronology = Oliver Nelson
| prev_title = Oliver Edward Nelson in London with Oily Rags
| prev_year = 1974
| next_title = Stolen Moments
| next_year = 1975
}}
Skull Session is an album by American jazz composer/arranger Oliver Nelson featuring performances recorded in 1975 for the Flying Dutchman label.Payne, D., [http://dougpayne.com/on67-75.htm#SKULL%20SESSION Oliver Nelson discography] accessed February 8, 2016[http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/flyingdutchman.pdf Flying Dutchman Label Discography] accessed February 8, 2016
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}
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AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars, stating: "For this interesting session, Oliver Nelson (who wrote and arranged all eight numbers) utilizes electric keyboards and rock and funk rhythms in what is still a big-band jazz date".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000464566 |title=Skull Session – Review |accessdate=February 8, 2016}}
Track listing
{{track listing
|all_writing=Oliver Nelson
|headline=Side one
|title1=Skull Session
|title2=Reuben's Rondo
|title3=125th St. and 7th Avenue
|title4=One for Duke
|length1=5:59
|length2=2:57
|length3=6:19
|length4=4:30
}}
{{track listing
|headline=Side two
|title1=Dumpy Mama
|title2=Baja Bossa
|title3=In a Japanese Garden
|title4=Flight for Freedom
|length1=4:38
|length2=7:16
|length3=3:07
|length4=4:25
|total_length=39:11
}}
Personnel
- Oliver Nelson - alto saxophone, arranger, conductor
- Bobby Bryant, Oscar Brashear (tracks 1-6 & 8) - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Paul Hubinon, Buddy Childers - trumpet (tracks 2-4)
- Grover Mitchell, Richard Nash, Chauncey Welsch - trombone (tracks 2-4)
- Maurice Spears - bass trombone (tracks 2-4)
- Vincent DeRosa, Davis Allan Duke - French horn (tracks 2-4)
- Don Waldrop - tuba (tracks 2-4)
- Jerome Richardson - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, flute
- Bud Shank - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, alto flute (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
- Buddy Collette - tenor saxophone, clarinet, tenor flute, alto flute (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
- Billy Green - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-5 & 8)
- Billy Perkins - tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet (tracks 1-5 & 8)
- John Kelson Jr. - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet (tracks 6 & 7)
- Lonnie Liston Smith - electric piano (tracks 1-5 & 8)
- Mike Wofford - electric piano, harpsichord, synthesizer, piano
- Laurindo Almeida - guitar (tracks 6 & 7)
- Dennis Budimir, Lee Ritenour - electric guitar (tracks 1, 5 & 8)
- Chuck Domanico - bass, electric bass
- Shelly Manne - drums, percussion
- Jimmy Gordon - drums (tracks 1, 5 & 7)
- Willie Bobo - percussion
References
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