DAVID "FATHEAD" NEWMAN - Four Classic Albums (Ray Charles Presents David Newman / The Sound Of Wide Open Spaces / Straight Ahead / Fathead Comes On)

AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from David “Fathead” Newman, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details“Ray Charles Presents David Newman”; “The Sound of Wide Open Spaces” (with James Clay); “Straight Ahead” and “Fathead Comes On”.It feels like AVID Jazz are moving into the modern era with our latest release by David “Fathead” Newman. Don’t let the nickname fool you, it was given to him while messing about at school and stuck ever since! He was a great jazz musician with a beautiful bluesy tone. Newman began his musical career primarily as a sideman in rhythm and blues bands in the 1950’s. His playing style comes from the Texas tenor school of big bluesy toned blowing similar to Don Wilkerson (AMSC 1285 Classic Tenors). It was when Wilkerson left the Lowell Fulson band in which Newman was playing baritone sax, that he took up the tenor. Newman also met his long-time friend and major collaborator Ray Charles (A