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Blue Note · in the Kissa Kissa racks

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Recorded1958
LabelBlue Note
CatalogBLP 1590
Released1958
Personnel4 credited players
Discogsmaster 192320

The record

Sonny Clark's crisp comping and the Watkins-Taylor rhythm team give this quartet session an easy, dancing swing. Recorded before Morgan turned twenty-one, it already carries the cocky lyricism his Blue Note years would run on.

Session personnel

  • Doug Watkins — bass
  • Art Taylor — drums
  • Sonny Clark — piano
  • Lee Morgan — trumpet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1983Blue Note · 25110 — Vinyl, LP, White Label earliest on file
1983Blue Note

Follow the players

Doug Watkins also plays on

Art Taylor also plays on

Sonny Clark also plays on

Lee Morgan also plays on