Gigi Gryce - Gigi Gryce And The Jazz Lab Quintet (1957) CD Rip

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Title: Gigi Gryce And The Jazz Lab Quintet
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: OJC[OJCCD-1774-2]
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 40:22
Total Size: 189 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Love For Sale [07:59]
02. Geraldine [05:38]
03. Minority [06:29]
04. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart [06:04]
05. Straight Ahead [09:33]
06. Wake Up! [04:38]
Gigi Gryce - Gigi Gryce And The Jazz Lab Quintet (1957) CD Rip

personnel :

Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone
Donald Byrd - trumpet
Wade Legge - piano
Wendell Marshall - bass
Art Taylor - drums

During 1957 altoist Gigi Gryce and trumpeter Donald Byrd co-led a quintet that sought to extend and come up with new variations to bebop. Unfortunately the group did not survive the year but Gryce and Byrd did combine for several memorable recordings, including an excellent Prestige LP reissued on this CD. Their quintet (with pianist Wade Legge, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Art Taylor) turn "Love for Sale" into a jazz waltz (an innovation for 1957), introduce Gryce's best-known composition "Minority," swing "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart," and perform a tricky but memorable blues line "Straight Ahead." This is exciting and still fresh-sounding bebop.~Scott Yanow