Al Haig Trio (Esoteric)
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''Al Haig Trio'' is a 1954 jazz album released by
Al Haig Alan Warren Haig (July 19, 1922 – November 16, 1982) was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Biography Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Nutley. In 1940, he majored in piano at Ob ...
on the Esoteric records label; in later rereleases it is therefore often known as ''Esoteric'' or ''The Al Haig Trio Esoteric''.


Background

The album is notable as being one of three that Haig released as leader in 1954, the final year of his first period of success. There followed some twenty years of obscurity, broken in the later 1970s, when he was finally recognised as an important pioneer of
bebop Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerou ...
, and began to be recorded again. This album contains thirteen sides, and was awarded a crown in Cook and Morton's ''
The Penguin Guide to Jazz ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled b ...
''.Richard Cook & Brian Morton. ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD'' sixth edition. London: Penguin Books, 2002.


Track listing

#" Autumn in New York" (5:17) #"
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" (3:38) #"They Can't Take That Away from Me" (2:52) #"
Royal Garden Blues "Royal Garden Blues" is a blues song composed by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams in 1919. Popularized in jazz by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band,
" (2:44) #"Don't Blame Me" (2:46) #"Moonlight in Vermont" (3:43) #"
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" (3:34) #"April in Paris" (2:15) #"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (2:20) #"Body and Soul" (4:55) #"Gone with the Wind" (2:59) #"My Old Flame" (2:58) #"On the Alamo" (3:34)


Personnel

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Al Haig Alan Warren Haig (July 19, 1922 – November 16, 1982) was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Biography Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Nutley. In 1940, he majored in piano at Ob ...
 – piano *
Bill Crow William Orval Crow (born December 27, 1927) is an American jazz bassist. Among other work, Crow was the long-term bassist in saxophonist Gerry Mulligan's bands in the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Crow was born on December 27, 1927, in Othello, ...
 – double bass *
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 – drums


References

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