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Blue Note

New Faces – New Sounds, Introducing The Kenny Drew Trio

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Recorded1953
LabelBlue Note
CatalogBLP 5023
Released1953
Personnel5 credited players
Discogsmaster 727344

The record

Art Blakey behind a piano trio is the proposition here, with Curly Russell on bass and Drew working eight tunes including 'Stella By Starlight', 'Yesterdays' and 'It Might As Well Be Spring'. Leonard Feather supplied the notes. Blue Note BLP 5023, a 1953 ten-inch in mono.

Tracks

  1. Yesterdays
  2. Stella By Starlight
  3. Gloria
  4. Be My Love
  5. Lover Come Back To Me
  6. Everything Happens To Me
  7. It Might As Well Be Spring
  8. Drew's Blues

Session personnel

  • Curly Russell — Bass
  • Art Blakey — Drums
  • Leonard Feather — Liner Notes
  • Kenny Drew — Piano
  • The Kenny Drew Trio

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1953Blue Note · BLP 5023 — Vinyl 10" Album Mono
1975Blue Note · BLP 5023 — Vinyl, 10", Album, Reissue, Mono
1975Blue Note · BLP 5023 — Vinyl, 10", Album, Reissue, Mono, Japan OBI
1983Blue Note · BNJ 71002 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1995Blue Note · BN 5023 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Mono
1999Blue Note · TOJJ-5023 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Mono
1999Blue Note · TOJJ-5023 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Reissue, Mono
2000Blue Note · TOCJ-9221 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, Paper Sleeve
2019Blue Note · UCCQ-9458 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, UHQCD

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Leonard Feather also plays on

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