Oliver Nelson
American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader
Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His 1961 Impulse! album The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) is regarded as one of the most significant recordings of its era. The centerpiece of the album is the definitive version of Nelson's composition, "Stolen Moments". Other important recordings from the 1960s are the albums More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1964) and Sound Pieces (1966), both also on Impulse!.
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Works
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- 111-44
- A Penthouse Dawn
- A Typical Day in New York
- All You Did Was Smile
- Alto‐Itis
- Anacruses
- Ballad for Benny
- Blues and the Abstract Truth
- Blues at the Five Spot
- Blues for M.F. (Mort Fega)
- Butch and Butch
- Cascades
- Complex City
- Critic's Choice
- Earphones
- End Title
- Full Nelson
- Guilty, Your Honor
- Hey, Who Really Cares?
- Hobo Flats
- Hoe‐Down
- I Call Your Name
- Images
- In Passing
- It Was You, It Was You
- Love Theme (Bossa)
- Main Title From "Zigzag"
- Mama Lou
- Miss Fine
- One for Duke
- Patterns for Orchestra
- Screamin' the Blues
- Six Million Dollar Man
- Six and Four
- Sound Piece for Jazz Orchestra
- Step Right Up
- Stolen Moments
- Straight Ahead
- Teenie’s Blues
- The Drive
- The Meetin’
- The Other Car
- The Stolen Moment
- Theme
- Three Seconds
- Tipsy
- Trane Whistle
- Variations of Themes
- Walk Away
- Whole Nelson
- Yearnin’
- You Love But Once