Tippin' the Scales

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Tippin' the Scales
Live album by Perfect Pitch
Released 1989
Recorded Olympia, London, 12th June 1989
Genre Jazz
Label Spotlite Records

Tippin' the Scales is a live album recorded at the Daily Express Olympia "Lifestyles 2000" Exhibition, London on 12th June 1989. The ad hoc line-up, Perfect Pitch, comprised frontliners Dick Morrissey on tenor sax, Peter King on alto sax and Jim Mullen on guitar, with a rhythm section made up of Brian Dee on piano, Mario Castronari on double bass and Bobby Worth on drums. The opening track, Phineas Newborn's "Down Home" is a tribute to the great pianist who had died the previous month. Track 2 is in reference to Miles Davis' 1960 recordings at Olympia.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Down Home" - (Phineas Newborn)
  2. "Milestones" - (Miles Davis)
  3. "Body and Soul" - (Green-Sour-Heyman)

[edit] Side two

  1. "With You I'm Born Again" - (Billy Preston)
  2. "I'm Walkin'" - (Fats Domino)

[edit] Line-up

Morrissey and Mullen do not appear on track 3.