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Tal Farlow Quartet / Sal Salvador Quintet/Quartet

Tal Farlow Quartet / Sal Salvador Quintet/Quartet cover
RecordedDec 24, 1953 & Apr 11, 1954
LabelBlue Note
Released1953
Personnel9 credited players

The record

Two guitarists split the bill on this reissue, Sal Salvador's clean, swing-rooted attack set against sharper, more harmonically restless lines from the co-leader. Joe Morello's drumming already shows the crispness he'd later bring to Brubeck's quartet.

Session personnel

  • Clyde Lombardi — bass
  • Kenny O'Brien — bass
  • Jimmy Campbell — drums
  • Joe Morello — drums
  • Don Arnone — guitar
  • Sal Salvador — guitar
  • Tal Farlow — guitar
  • John Williams — piano
  • Frank Socolow — tenor saxophone

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1979Blue Note — MONO

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