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Portrait Of Sonny Criss

Recorded	Mar 23, 1967
Label	Prestige
Catalog	PR 7526
Released	1967
Personnel	4 credited players
Discogs	master 401311

The record

Walter Davis Jr.'s piano and a rock-steady rhythm team give this March 1967 session room to breathe, Criss digging into blues phrasing with unhurried confidence. It's a quartet date that trades flash for depth.

Session personnel

Sonny Criss — alto saxophone
Paul Chambers — bass
Alan Dawson — drums
Walter Davis Jr. — piano

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 18 pressings on file.

1967	Prestige · PR 7526 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file · RVG stamp
1967	Prestige · PR 7526 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Test Pressing, Mono · RVG stamp
1967	Prestige · PR 7526 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972	Prestige
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-655 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-655-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1991	Prestige · VICJ-23671 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-5655 — Cassette, Album, Reissue
1991	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-655-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1993	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-655-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Repress
1997	Prestige · VICJ-60056 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2000	Prestige · VICJ-60467 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Paper sleeve
2006	Prestige · VICJ-41555 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Paper sleeve
2008	Prestige · UCCO-9367 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered