GRAY WARDELL - MEMORIAL VOLUME 2 (LP)

Gray Wardell Memorial Volume 2 On Vinyl LP

The legendary West Coast jam sessions of the late '40s and early '50s often pitted Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon in friendly combat. This one captures the tenor saxophone colleagues in a 1950 reunion after they had not played together for more than two years. Trumpeter Clark Terry, then a member of Count Basie sextet and Los Angeles alto saxophonist Sonny Criss are the other prominent players. Gray's sextet sides from 1951 served to introduce Art Farmer to the jazz public at large as both player and composer. His "Farmer's Market" and Hamp Hawes's "Jackie" became, like Wardell's earlier "Twisted," material for the offbeat, inventive lyrics of Annie Ross.

Gray Wardell Memorial Volume 2 Track Listing

1.         Scrapple from the Apple
2.         Move
3.         Farmer's Market
4.         Jackie
5.         Bright Boy
6.         April Skies
7.         Sweet and Lovely
8.         Lover Man
9.         Blue Gray
10.       Grayhound
11.       A Sinner Kissed an Angel
12.       Treadin'