Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
1956 studio album by Randy Weston
Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio | ||||
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Studio album by Randy Weston | ||||
Released | Early February 1956[1] | |||
Recorded | August 29 & 31, 1955 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Riverside RLP 12-203 | |||
Producer | Orrin Keepnews, Bill Grauer | |||
Randy Weston chronology | ||||
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Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio is a jazz album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1955 and released on the Riverside label.[2]
Reception
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The Allmusic review by Jim Todd stated: "This early release from Randy Weston finds the pianist still in his formative stages... The set shows Weston's facility with standards, Ellingtonia, even ragtime, but, with several tracks coming in well under four minutes, the performances offer little room for development. The impression here is that of a pianist of great potential limbering up before the curtain rises for the show".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Randy Weston, except as indicated
- "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:42
- "Fire Down There" (Traditional) - later renamed "St. Thomas" - 2:51
- "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 4:09
- "Under Blunder" - 3:06
- "Dark Eyes" (Florian Hermann) - 3:34
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:56
- "Bass Knows" - 5:15
- "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 2:49
- "A Ballad" (Sam Gill) - 4:20
- "Twelfth Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman) - 2:59
Personnel
- Randy Weston - piano
- Sam Gill - bass
- Wilbert Hogan - drums
References
- ^ Billboard Feb 16, 1956
- ^ Riverside Records discography, accessed August 9, 2012.
- ^ a b Todd, J. Allmusic Review, accessed August 9, 2012.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 206. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1491. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Some titles have been shortened.
leader
or
co-leader
- Cole Porter in a Modern Mood (1954)
- The Randy Weston Trio (1955)
- Get Happy (1955)
- With These Hands... (1956)
- Trio and Solo (1955–56)
- Jazz à la Bohemia (1956)
- The Modern Art of Jazz (1956)
- Piano á la Mode (1957)
- New Faces at Newport (split with Lem Winchester, 1958)
- Little Niles (1958)
- Destry Rides Again (1959)
- Live at the Five Spot (1959)
- Uhuru Afrika (1960)
- Highlife (1963)
- Randy (1964; aka, African Cookbook, Atlantic)
- Berkshire Blues (1965)
- Monterey '66 (1966)
- African Cookbook (Polydor, 1969)
- Niles Littlebig (1969)
- Blue Moses (1972)
- Tanjah (1973)
- Carnival (1974)
- Blues to Africa (1974)
- The Healers (with David Murray, 1987)
- The Spirits of Our Ancestors (1991)
- Khepera (1998)
others
- Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1984)
- Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)