Day After – Tom McIntosh
A moving ballad that allows for a wide range of emotional expression in its beautiful melody.
- Recording: Art Farmer - Perception
- Recorded on: October 25-27, 1961
- Label: Argo (LP 738)
- Concert Key: D minor
- Style: Ballad
- Trumpet - Art Farmer
- Piano - Harold Mabern
- Bass - Tommy Williams
- Drums - Roy McCurdy
Art Farmer was the first to record this composition in October, 1961. Within two months, Howard McGhee made his recording, and within a month after that, James Moody recorded it. Dizzy Gillespie recorded it twice, first in 1963, and then again later in 1965. The other Art Farmer recording currently on iTunes comes from 1968 (Art also recorded it in 1970, but that selection is currently unavailable on iTunes).
Details about the three additional recordings that are included in our audio excerpt:
-- Howard McGhee The Day After - Sharp Edge December 8, 1961 Black Lion BLCD770110 [first on Fontana (Dutch label]: Howard McGhee (tp) George Coleman (ts) Junior Mance (p) George Tucker (b) Jimmy Cobb (d)
-- Dizzy Gillespie The Day After - Something Old, Something New April 25, 1963 Philips PHM200-091: Dizzy Gillespie (tp) James Moody (ts) Kenny Barron (p) Chris White (b) Rudy Collins (d)
-- James Moody The Day After - Another Bag January 30, 1962 Argo LP 695: James Moody (flute) Paul Serrano (tp) John Avant (tb) Kenny Barron (p) Ernest "Ernie" Outlaw (b) Marshall Thompson (d)
More Farmer recordings:
-- The Day After (feat. Tom Mc Intosh, Martial Solal & Henry Texier) - What Happens?... - Art Farmer - Phil Woods Together [no Phil Woods on this track]
-- From Vienna With Art
Tom McIntosh
February 6, 1927 – July 26, 2017
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, trombonist and arranger/composer Tom McIntosh studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory in 1944. In 1950 he was stationed in Germany with an Army band, where he first encountered reedman James Moody, who was touring Europe with Coleman Hawkins. Nine years later, after graduating from the Juillard School in NYC, Mac was hired by Moody to play in his sextet. The sextet became a septet for the first Moody recording, simply titled "James Moody," recorded in Chicago in August, 1959, for the Argo label. This album also contained Tom's first recorded composition With Malice Toward None, which Tom arranged as well. Read more...