Dimensions (Maynard Ferguson album)

Dimensions
Studio album by
Maynard Ferguson
Released1955
RecordedFebruary 19 & 23, 1954 and August 26, 1955
Studio
GenreJazz
LabelEmArcy
MG 36044
Maynard Ferguson chronology
Jam Session
(1954) 		Dimensions
(1955) 		Maynard Ferguson Octet
(1955)

Dimensions is an album led by jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in early 1954 and mid-1955 and released on the EmArcy label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Billboard in 1955 wrote: "Ferguson plays a cleaner, more purposeful host than has generally been true in the past, in which ideas go volleying back and forth between him and saxophonist Bud Shank, Bob Cooper and Bob Gordon."[3] AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Although not essential, the bop-oriented music is well-played and gives one a good taste of early Ferguson".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Egad, Martha" (Bill Holman) - 3:50
  2. "Breakfast Dance" (Holman) - 4:00
  3. "Maiden Voyage" (Willie Maiden) - 2:56
  4. "Thou Swell" (Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart) - 2:50
  5. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 2:50
  6. "All God's Children Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn) - 2:49
  7. "Slow Stroll" (Holman) - 2:40
  8. "Wonder Why" (Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn) - 3:27
  9. "Willie Nillie" (Maiden) - 2:41
  10. "Hymm to Her" (Maiden) - 2:14
  11. "Lonely Town" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein) - 2:56
  12. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen) - 3:00
  • Recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on February 19, 1954 (tracks 3-6 & 9), and at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles on February 23, 1954 (tracks 10-12) and August 26, 1955 (tracks 1, 2, 7 & 8)

Personnel

References

  1. ^ EmArcy Records discography accessed September 28, 2012
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 28, 2012
  3. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums". Billboard. Vol. 67, no. 8. February 19, 1955. p. 34.