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Apogee
Studio album by
Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh
Released1978
RecordedMay 17–21 and June 3, 1978
StudioABC, Los Angeles, California
GenreJazz
Length42:28
LabelWarner Bros.
BSK 3236
ProducerWalter Becker, Donald Fagen
Warne Marsh chronology
Warne Out
(1977) 		Apogee
(1978) 		Conversations with Warne Volume 1
(1978)
Pete Christlieb chronology
Tell It Like It Is
(1972) 		Apogee
(1978) 		Conversations with Warne Volume 1
(1978)

Apogee is an album by saxophonists Pete Christlieb and Warne Marsh, recorded in 1978 and released on the Warner Bros. label.[1][2]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Jazz Review[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide states that "Apogee is an unadulterated burner, guaranteed to work for tenor freaks."[3] The AllMusic review noted: "Apogee is an anomaly in many ways. First, it is a Southern California answer to the great titan tenor battle records of the '40s and '50s. Rather than sounding like a cutting contest, it sounds like a gorgeous exercise in swinging harmony and melodic improvisation by two compadres. ... the pair engaged a kind of freewheeling, good-time set that remains one of the most harmonically sophisticated recordings to come out of the 1970s."[4] On All About Jazz, Chris M. Slawecki observed: "It is impossible to distinguish one man’s tenor from the other: sometimes they swing in unison, sometimes harmonizing, sometimes in duet or counterpunching, but they are always strong, meaty and powerful."[7] In Jazz Review, Mark Keresman called it "a sterling set of beautifully recorded, searing, straight-ahead, mainstream bop tenor madness."[5]

Track listing

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  1. "Magna-tism" (Pete Christlieb) – 7:32
  2. "317 E. 32nd" (Lennie Tristano) – 6:34
  3. "Rapunzel" (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker) – 7:15
  4. "Tenors of the Time" (Joe Roccisano) – 7:42
  5. "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker) – 6:35
  6. "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) – 6:50
  7. "Lunarcy" (Lou Levy) – 7:13 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Love Me" – 4:13 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) – 9:37 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P. & Callahan, M. Warner Brothers Album Discography, Part 8: BSK-3100 to BSK-3299 (1977–1979) accessed May 16, 2017
  2. ^ Godwin, M. Discography of Warne Marion Marsh accessed May 16, 2017
  3. ^ a b Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 132. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. Apogee – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 16, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Keresman, M. Jazz Review review Archived 2016-10-24 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 16, 2017
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 251. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Slawecki, C. M. All About Jazz review accessed May 16, 2017
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