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Announcing Bob Dorough’s
new recording! First issue on his own label!
Bob Dorough - The
Houston Branch
DeesBees
Records (DB CD – 001)
This CD features Bob’s daughter, Aralee, and her
husband, Colin Gatwood,
on flute & oboe, respectively and respectably, in
arrangements that have been
written for them by Bob, some of them done years ago and
some for this recording project.
The recording was done in Houston and also features
three of that city’s busiest sidemen:
Larry Slezak, tenor sax, David Craig, bass, and Joel
Fulgham, drums.
Bob is at the piano of course and, although he only
sings two of the nine tracks,
you won’t want to miss “September Song.”
Those of you in the Pocono area, who may have attended a
concert at ESU (February 17th, 2005), would
have heard Aralee and Colin playing this repertoire with
Bob. The Houston sidemen were represented by our own
busy cats: Nelson Hill, tenor sax, Steve Gilmore,
bass, & Bill Goodwin, drums. Eric Doney also
appeared at that concert playing “classical” selections
with Aralee,
which pieces however are not included in the Houston
Branch CD.
Some of the arrangements you will hear on the CD were
written for only the two woodwinds,
and go back to a time when Aralee & Colin were students,
and wanted to play a little
“street music,” for spare change and performing
experience. Now, years later, Aralee
is the principal flutist and Colin is the second oboist
in the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
They requested that their “famous” Dad make a jazz
recording with them and thus this CD
was born, along with the new label.
Bob Dorough’s three CD’s done for Blue Note Records
(“Right on My Way Home,” “Too Much Coffee Man,” & “Who’s
on First”) are now, sadly, unavailable. The lack
of control in such matters has caused some rethinking on
Bob’s part, as well as that of many other currently
active recording artists. “It was a heady feeling,
to be on a major label for a minute,” Bob reports in the
press,
“but one is helpless when the greater powers decide the
product is no longer viable.”
This “product” will never be pulverized!
The Houston Branch
is available
Online -
www.cdbaby.com/dorough
Local -
Main Street Jukebox
(in Stroudsburg -
570-424-2246).
Now available at Tower Records!
-
66th & Broadway, New York City
Direct -
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DeesBess Records
(info below)
Buyers who would like a copy
direct, or multiple copies,
or even an autographed copy, may post a check for
$17.00, payable to
DeesBees Records
4 Sunrise Blvd., MT. BETHEL PA 18343
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