Full Nelson (album)

Full Nelson
Studio album by
ReleasedEnd of August 1963
RecordedNovember 19, 1962 (#1, 2, 8, 9)
February 26, 1963 (#3, 4, 7, 10)
March 28, 1963 (#5, 6, 11, 12)
StudioRCA Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length41:05
LabelVerve
V-8508
ProducerCreed Taylor
Oliver Nelson Orchestra chronology
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(1962)
Full Nelson
(1963)
Fantabulous
(1964)
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Full Nelson is a jazz album by Oliver Nelson recorded in 1962 and 1963, and released on Verve Records. It is one of his first big band albums. Nelson has also arranged his Hoe Down, originally based on an Aaron Copland composition, which initially appeared in a septet version on The Blues and the Abstract Truth, in a driving big band arrangement that features Clark Terry.