''Lookin' Good!'' is the second and final album led by trumpeter

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which was recorded in 1961 and released on the

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Reception

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awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating: "Although the solos are generally more memorable than the tunes, this is an excellent effort that hints at what might have been had Joe Gordon lived".

Track listing

''All compositions by Joe Gordon'' # "Terra Firma Irma" - 7:46 # "A Song for Richard" - 5:05 # "Non-Viennese Waltz Blues" - 4:14 # "You're the Only Girl in the Next World for Me" - 4:05 # "Co-Op Blues" - 6:00 # "Mariana" - 4:13 # "Heleen" - 4:06 # "Diminishing" - 5:07

Personnel

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

Jimmy Woods Jimmy Woods (born October 29, 1934, in St. Louis, Missouri; died March 29, 2018, in Anchorage, Alaska) was an American jazz alto saxophonist. Woods played with the R&B band of Homer Carter in 1951, and served in the U.S. Air Force, Air Force from ...

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*Dick Whittington -

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

* Jimmy Bond -

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References

{{Authority control Joe Gordon (musician) albums 1961 albums Contemporary Records albums