The Fox (Harold Land album)

The Fox
Studio album by
Harold Land
Released1960
RecordedAugust 1959
GenreJazz, hard bop
Length36:49
LabelHifijazz; reissued by Contemporary
ProducerDavid Axelrod
Harold Land chronology
Harold in the Land of Jazz
(1958) 		The Fox
(1960) 		West Coast Blues!
(1960)

The Fox is a 1960 album by Harold Land, originally released on the Hifijazz label and reissued by Contemporary in 1969 and on CD by Original Jazz Classics in 1991. The album features trumpeter Dupree Bolton.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
DownBeat[3]
Tom HullB+[7]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz[6]

AllMusic's Scott Yanow described the album as an "excellent straight-ahead quintet set" and "high-quality hard bop".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz rates the album three and a half stars and describes Land as an "underrated composer with a deep feeling for the blues" and states that The Fox, "tricky and fugitive as much of it is, must be thought his finest moment".[4]

Track listing

  1. "The Fox" (Land) 5:36
  2. "Mirror Mind Rose" (Hope) 6:32
  3. "One Second, Please" (Hope) 5:51
  4. "Sims A-Plenty" (Hope) 6:17
  5. "Little Chris" (Land) 5:10
  6. "One Down" (Hope) 7:23

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ^ Gioia, Ted: In Search of Dupree Bolton April, 2009 (retrieved 5/15/2013)
  2. ^ a b AllMusic review
  3. ^ Gkeason, Ralph J. (26 May 1960). "Harold Land: The Fox". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 11. p. 32.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
  5. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 124. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  6. ^ Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 512. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Harold Land". Tom Hull. Retrieved 10 July 2020.