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A Touch Of The Blues

Lee Wiley

Recorded	1957
Label	RCA Victor
Released	1957
Personnel	16 credited players
Discogs	master 612558

The record

Wiley's smoky, behind-the-beat phrasing gets a lush late-'50s frame here, with Al Cohn's reeds and a top-shelf rhythm section of Hinton, Galbraith and Lowe easing her torch songs into full bloom. A quietly assured entry from a singer whose influence on jazz vocal phrasing outran her fame.

Session personnel

Milt Hinton — bass
Don Lamond — drums
Barry Galbraith — guitar
Mundell Lowe — guitar
Moe Wechsler — piano
Al Cohn — saxophone
Gene Allen — saxophone
Hank D'Amico — saxophone
Nick Caiazza — saxophone
Toots Mondello — saxophone
Cutty Cutshall — trombone
Rex Peer — trombone
Joe Ferrante — trumpet
Nick Travis — trumpet
Tony Faso — trumpet
Billy Butterfield — trumpet, leader

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 17 pressings on file.

1958	RCA Victor · LPM-1566 — Vinyl, LP, Mono earliest on file
1958	RCA Victor
1958	RCA · LPM-1566 — Vinyl, LP
1958	RCA Victor · APS-102 — Reel-To-Reel, 7 ½ ips, ¼", 2-Track Stereo, 7" Cine Reel, Album
1958	RCA · LSP-1566 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Indianapolis Pressing
1958	RCA Victor · SF 5003 — Vinyl, LP
1977	RCA · PG-37 — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Mono, OBI
1982	RCA · RJL-2561(M) — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1987	RCA · NL90041 — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Stereo
1987	RCA/Ariola · NK 90041 — Cassette, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1989	RCA · R25J-1041 — CD, Album, Reissue, Mono
1998	RCA · BVCJ-7478 — CD, Album, Reissue, Mono
2001	RCA · 90301-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Mono
2002	RCA · BVCJ-37243 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, K2 24 bit Mastering