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Pacific Jazz · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Plays Tenor

Plays Tenor cover
RecordedNov 28, 1957
LabelPacific Jazz
Released1957
Personnel4 credited players
Discogsmaster 647958

The record

Setting the usual horn aside for tenor, the leader leans into a breathier, Rollins-adjacent tone over brisk piano work. A curious late-1957 detour from the cool-school image he'd helped build.

Session personnel

  • Don Prell — acoustic bass
  • Chuck Flores — drums
  • Claude Williamson — piano
  • Bud Shank — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1960Pacific Jazz · STEREO-4 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1960Pacific Jazz — MONO
1962The Record Society · SRZ.6056 — Vinyl, LP, Club Edition, Stereo
1962The Record Society · 56-6056 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Mono, Horizontal obi
1962The Record Society · S-6056 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo, Horizontal Obi
1962The Record Society · RZ 6056 — Vinyl, LP, Club Edition, Mono
1979Pacific Jazz · GXF-3135 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue
1992Pacific Jazz · PJ-0004 — Vinyl, LP
2002Pacific Jazz · TOCJ-9450 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve
2007Pacific Jazz · TOCJ-6377 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
2018Jazz Workshop (2) · JW-087 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180
2021Pacific Jazz · UCCU-8169 — CD, Album, Reissue

Follow the players

Don Prell also plays on

Chuck Flores also plays on

Claude Williamson also plays on

Bud Shank also plays on