''Jazz Lab'' is an album by American jazz trumpeter

Donald Byrd Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter and vocalist. A sideman for many other jazz musicians of his generation, Byrd was one of the few hard bop m ...

and saxophonist Gigi Gryce, released in 1957 by

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Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "With some of the best arrangements heard in jazz and excellent solos by Gryce, Byrd, and Flanagan, ''Jazz Lab'' makes for an excellent introduction to the hard bop catalog."Cook, S
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Track listing

''All compositions by Gigi Gryce except as indicated'' # "Speculation" ( Horace Silver) - 3:38 # " Over the Rainbow" (

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, Yip Harburg) - 8:21 # "Nica's Tempo" - 5:27 # "Blue Concept" - 5:03 # "Little Niles" ( Randy Weston) - 7:04 # "Sans Souci" - 7:17 # " I Remember Clifford" (

Benny Golson Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launch ...

) - 4:57 *Recorded in New York City on February 4, 1957 (tracks 1 & 3), February 5, 1957 (tracks 2 & 6), and March 13, 1957 (tracks 4, 5 & 7)

Personnel

* Gigi Gryce -

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- trumpet *

Jimmy Cleveland James Milton Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.

(tracks 5 & 7),

Benny Powell Benny Powell (March 1, 1930 – June 26, 2010) was an American jazz trombonist. He played both standard (tenor) trombone and bass trombone. Biography Born Benjamin Gordon Powell Jr in New Orleans, Louisiana, he first played professionally ...

(tracks 1 & 3) - trombone * Julius Watkins - French horn (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 7) * Don Butterfield - tuba (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 7) * Sahib Shihab -

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(tracks 1, 3, 5 & 7) * Tommy Flanagan (tracks 1-3 & 6),

Wade Legge Wade Legge (February 4, 1934, Huntington, West Virginia – August 29, 1963, Buffalo, New York) was an American jazz pianist and bassist. Wade Legge was born in Huntington, West Virginia, but soon thereafter moved to Buffalo, New York with ...

(tracks 4, 5 & 7) - piano *

Wendell Marshall Wendell Marshall (October 24, 1920 – February 6, 2002) was an American jazz double-bassist. Marshall was Jimmy Blanton's cousin. He studied at Lincoln University, then served in the Army during World War II. Following his discharge, he perfor ...

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Art Taylor Arthur S. Taylor Jr. (April 6, 1929 – February 6, 1995) was an American jazz drummer, who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".Watrous, Peter (February 7, 1995)"Art Taylor, 65, Jazz Drummer Who Inspired Young Musicians" ''The Ne ...

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References

1957 albums Gigi Gryce albums Donald Byrd albums Columbia Records albums {{1950s-jazz-album-stub