The Chico Hamilton Quintet - Gongs East! (1958/2013)

Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. Quite possibly the best album to feature the talents of Chico Hamilton and Eric Dolphy – a set recorded at a time when Dolphy was an up-and-coming player on the west coast scene! Although Chico Hamilton had recorded with unusual reed players before, Dolphy brings a depth of soul and spirit to this album that's missing from a lot of Chico's earlier work at the time – a style that still holds onto some of the measured qualities of the Pacific Jazz work by the Hamilton group, yet which also opens up into some of the darker corners that Dolphy would explore more on his own recordings of the 60s.


Tracks:

01. Beyond the Blue Horizon (Whiting-Robin-Harling) - 3:07
02. Where I Live (Wilson) - 4:03
03. Gongs East (Hamilton) - 4:51
04. I Gave My Love a Cherry (H.Smith) - 4:43
05. Good Grief, Dennis (C.Smith) - 3:07
06. Long Ago (And Far Away) (Kern-Gershwin) - 3:01
07. Tuesday at Two (Wilson) - 3:00
08. Nature by Emerson (Katz) - 5:07
09. Far East (Pierce) - 4:06
10. Passion Flower (Strayhorn) - 3:20

Personnel:

Chico Hamilton - drums
Dennis Budimir - guitar
Eric Dolphy - alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Nathan Gershman - cello
Wyatt Ruther - bass

Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA on December 29-30, 1958.