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Beat

Recorded	1963
Label	Workshop Jazz
Catalog	W 220
Released	1963
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 465831

The record

A hard-bop date led from the drum chair, with a front line stacked deep -- Blue Mitchell's trumpet and Junior Cook's tenor trading against Bohanon's trombone. Workshop Jazz rarely surfaces this kind of firepower on a leader debut, making it a sleeper worth the crate dig.

Session personnel

Gene Taylor — bass
Roy Brooks — drums
Hugh Lawson — piano
Junior Cook — tenor saxophone [saxman]
George Bohanon — trombone
Blue Mitchell — trumpet [trumpeter]

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1964	Workshop Jazz · W 220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
—	Tamla Motown · SMJ-7279 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove; laminated sleeve
1964	Workshop Jazz · WS 220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Rockaway Pressing
1964	Workshop Jazz · W 220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Rockaway Pressing
1964	Workshop Jazz · WSJ-220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
2004	Fresh Sound Records · FSR-CD 350 — CD, Album, Reissue
2020	Jazz Workshop (2) · JW-098 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180 gram
2022	Workshop Jazz — STEREO
2022	Workshop Jazz · 220 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180g, Yellow
—	Stateside · JSL 5008 — Vinyl, LP