George Wallington Quintet - Jazz For The Carriage Trade (Hybrid SACD, Mono)
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Phil Woods, alto sax
Donald Byrd, trumpet
Teddy Kotick, bass
Arthur Taylor, drums
1 Hybrid SACD
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Mono
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Prestige
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on January 20, 1956.
by Rudy Van Gelder
Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Tracks :
- Our Delight
- Our Love Is Here to Stay
- Foster Dulles
- Together We Wail
- What's New
- But George
« During 1956-57 trumpeter Donald Byrd and altoist Phil Woods (both important up-and-coming players) were regular members of pianist George Wallington's quintet. For this CD reissue, bassist Teddy Kotick and drummer Art Taylor complete the group on a program that includes three standards ("Our Delight," "Our Love Is Here to Stay" and "What's New"), a pair of Woods originals ("Together We Wail" and "But George") and Frank Foster's "Foster Dulles." The music falls between bebop and hard bop with Woods sounding quite strong while Byrd comes across as a promising (but not yet mature) youngster. A fine example of this somewhat forgotten but talented group, easily recommended to bop collectors. » AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow
Besides his importance as one of the first bop pianists, a major jazz composer, and a prototypical trio player (as heard on The George Wallington Trios), for a time pianist George Wallington was also a New York combo leader and talent scout on the order of Art Blakey and Miles Davis. This 1956 session comes from the period when Wallington was musical director at the Cafe Bohemia in Greenwich Village, where the present quintet introduced then-young lions trumpeter Donald Byrd and alto saxophonist Phil Woods to jazz’s major leagues.
For this reissue, bassist Teddy Kotick and drummer Art Taylor complete the group on a program that includes three standards ("Our Delight," "Our Love Is Here to Stay" and "What’s New"), a pair of Woods originals ("Together We Wail" and "But George") and Frank Foster’s "Foster Dulles." All Music Guide says "The music falls between bebop and hard bop with Woods sounding quite strong while Byrd comes across as a promising (but not yet mature) youngster. A fine example of this somewhat forgotten but talented group, easily recommended to bop collectors."