Blue Note · in the Kissa Kissa racks
Howard McGhee All Stars & Sextet
| Recorded | Oct 11, 1948 & May 20, 1953 |
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| Label | Blue Note |
| Released | 1948 |
| Personnel | 12 credited players |
The record
Two trumpets duel across this Blue Note session, McGhee and Fats Navarro trading choruses while Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce sit young and unproven in the ranks. October 1948 caught the music hardening into a new orthodoxy, and this date is part of the proof.
Session personnel
- Gigi Gryce — alto saxophone
- Curly Russell — bass
- Percy Heath — bass
- Max Roach — drums
- Walter Bolden — drums
- Tal Farlow — guitar
- Horace Silver — piano
- Kenny Drew — piano
- Brew Moore — tenor saxophone
- J.J. Johnson — trombone
- Fats Navarro — trumpet
- Howard McGhee — trumpet
Contemporary reception
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Pressings
| 1983 | Blue Note — MONO, LIMITED EDITION |
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