The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer

The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer
Studio album by
Al Cohn
Released1957
RecordedDecember 3–5, 1956
New York City
GenreJazz
Length40:15
LabelCoral
CRL 57118
ProducerSteve Backer
Al Cohn chronology
Cohn on the Saxophone
(1956) 		The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer
(1957) 		The Four Brothers... Together Again!
(1957)

The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer is an album by saxophonist, composer and arranger Al Cohn's Quintet with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer recorded in late 1956 for the Coral label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [3]

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated "Cohn and Brookmeyer inspire one another throughout the sessions".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated

  1. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:25
  2. "Good Spirits" (Bob Brookmeyer) - 3:37
  3. "A Blues Serenade" (Frank Signorelli, Vincent Grande, Jimmy Lytell) - 4:23
  4. "Lazy Man Stomp" (Brookmeyer) - 2:56
  5. "Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:50
  6. "Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp)" (Neil Moret, Gus Kahn) - 3:38
  7. "S-H-I-N-E" (Cecil Mack, Lew Brown, Ford Dabney) - 3:45
  8. "Back to Back" - 2:37
  9. "So Far So Good" - 3:50
  10. "Winter" - 3:54
  11. "I Should Care" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) - 2:41
  12. "Bunny Hunch" (Brookmeyer) - 2:39

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P., Watts, R, Neely, T. & Callahan, M., Coral Album Discography, accessed November 30, 2015
  2. ^ a b Dryden, Ken. The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.