1967 studio album by Duke Pearson
Sweet Honey Bee is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Duke Pearson , released on the Blue Note label in 1967.[ 3] The woman on the cover was Pearson's fiancee Betty.[ 4]
Allmusic awarded the album with 4 stars and its review by Scott Yanow states: "Pianist/composer Duke Pearson leads an all-star group on this run-through of seven of his compositions. The musicians (trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, altoist James Spaulding, Joe Henderson on tenor, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Mickey Roker, and the pianist/leader) are actually more impressive than many of the compositions, although the swinging minor-toned "Big Bertha" deserved to become a standard."[ 5] The Penguin Guide review says: "the highlights are the lushly voiced melodies of 'Sudel' and 'Gaslight', the former a tune which Pearson had recorded some years earlier with a different group. Hubbard and Henderson eat up their solo opportunities without sundering the essentially easy-going feel which was [a] Pearson trademark, and while not all the material is up to this standard, as a showcase for the pianist as writer and group-leader, this is surely the best thing available at present [2004]."[ 2]
In David Mitchell 's novel Ghostwritten , Satoru, a young Japanese jazz-lover working in a record shop in Tokyo, says of a girl who comes into the store, "if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the Rain,' well, she was as beautiful and pure as that."[ 6]
All compositions by Duke Pearson.
"Sweet Honey Bee" – 5:00 "Sudel" – 5:43 "After the Rain" – 4:45 "Gaslight" – 6:01 "Big Bertha" – 5:58 "Empathy" – 6:00 "Ready Rudy?" – 6:01 ^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "Sweet Honey Bee – Duke Pearson | AllMusic" . allmusic.com . Retrieved 17 July 2011 . ^ a b Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD , 7th ed. (Penguin, 2004: ISBN 978-0-14-101416-6 ). ^ Duke Pearson discography accessed September 6, 2010 ^ Nat Hentoff, liner notes to Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note CDP 0777 7 89792 2 7). ^ Yanow, S.Allmusic Review: Sweet Honey Bee accessed 06 June 2010 ^ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten (Random House Digital, Inc., 2001: ISBN 0375724508 ), p. 41.
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader WithDonald Byrd With others Arranger only I'm Tryin' to Get Home (for Donald Byrd]], 1964) Lush Life (for Lou Donaldson , 1967) Am I Blue (for Grant Green, 1963) Boss Horn (for Blue Mitchell , 1966) Heads Up! (for Blue Mitchell, 1968) A Slice of the Top (for Hank Mobley , 1966) Standards (for Lee Morgan , 1967) Rough 'n' Tumble (for Stanley Turrentine , 1966) A Bluish Bag (for Stanley Turrentine, 1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (for Stanley Turrentine, 1967) The Look of Love (for Stanley Turrentine, 1968)
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
Albums as leader or co-leader Open Sesame (1960) Goin' Up (1960) Hub Cap (1961) Minor Mishap /Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson , 1961) Ready for Freddie (1961) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Hub-Tones (1962) Here to Stay (1962) The Body & the Soul (1963) Breaking Point! (1964) Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath , 1965) The Night of the Cookers (1965) Blue Spirits (1965–66) Backlash (1966) High Blues Pressure (1967) A Soul Experiment (1968–69) The Black Angel (1969) The Hub of Hubbard (1970) Red Clay (1970) Straight Life (1970) Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu , 1970) First Light (1971) Polar AC (1971–73) Sky Dive (1972) Keep Your Soul Together (1973) Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973) In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine , 1974) High Energy (1974) Gleam (1975) Liquid Love (1975) Windjammer (1976) Bundle of Joy (1977) Super Blue (1978) The Love Connection (1979) Skagly (1979) Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry , Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson , 1980) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980) Born to Be Blue (1981) Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981) Outpost (1981) Rollin' (1981) Splash (1981) Above & Beyond (1982) Back to Birdland (1982) Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982) Ride Like the Wind (1982) The Rose Tattoo (1983) Sweet Return (1983) Double Take (with Woody Shaw , 1985) Life Flight (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987) Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey , 1988) Times Are Changing (1989) Topsy – Standard Book (1989) Bolivia (1990–91) At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991) Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991) Blues for Miles (1992) MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95) New Colors (2000) On the Real Side (2007) With Art Blakey /The Jazz Messengers WithDexter Gordon WithHerbie Hancock WithBobby Hutcherson WithQuincy Jones WithWayne Shorter With others The Soul of the City (Manny Albam , 1966) The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson , 1969) Out of This World (Walter Benton , 1960) True Blue (Tina Brooks , 1960) God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell , 1971) Cables' Vision (George Cables , 1979) Droppin' Things (Betty Carter , 1990) Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman , 1960) Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane , 1961) Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961) Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965) Muses for Richard Davis (1969) Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy , 1960) Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964) Undercurrent (Kenny Drew , 1960) Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland , 1973) Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin , 1967) Interplay (Bill Evans , 1962) Sonic Text (Joe Farrell , 1979) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller , 1960) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962) Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson , 1961) Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962) Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959) Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton , 1960) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) The Quota (Jimmy Heath , 1961) Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962) Big Band (Joe Henderson , 1996) Pax (Andrew Hill , 1965) Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965) Sunflower (Milt Jackson , 1972) Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973) 52nd Street (Billy Joel , 1978) Reg Strikes Back (Elton John , 1988) J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson , 1960) Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan , 1982) Essence (John Lewis , 1960–62) Water Sign (Jeff Lorber , 1979) Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews , 1963) Bluesnik (Jackie McLean , 1961) MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet , 1994) Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery , 1958) Roll Call (Hank Mobley , 1960) The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson , 1961) Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson , 1966) The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967) Contours (Sam Rivers , 1965) Drums Unlimited (Max Roach , 1965) East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins , 1966) Numbers (Rufus , 1978) Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin , 1965) Giant Box (Don Sebesky , 1973) Sugar (Stanley Turrentine , 1970) Together (McCoy Tyner , 1978) Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980) Soundscapes (Cedar Walton , 1980) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston , 1960) Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)