Brookmeyer

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Released 1957 Release date 1957 Genre Jazz		Artist Bob Brookmeyer Label Vik

Recorded September 19 and October 9 & 15, 1956Webster Hall, New York City Similar Bob Brookmeyer albums, Jazz albums

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Brookmeyer (also released as Bob Brookmeyer and his Orchestra) is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger Bob Brookmeyer recorded in 1956 for the RCA Records subsidiary Vik label.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated "Brookmeyer shines whenever he takes an opportunity to solo, as do his fellow musicians."

Track listing

All compositions by Bob Brookmeyer except as indicated

"Oh Jane Snavely – 3:09
"Nature Boy - (eden ahbez) – 7:06
"Just You and Me" (Jesse Greer, Raymond Klages) – 2:41
"I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) – 2:55
"Gone Latin" – 3:07
"Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" (James F. Hanley) – 6:12
"Big City Life" – 4:11
"Confusion Blues" – 4:17
"Open Country" – 6:12

Personnel

Bob Brookmeyer - valve trombone

Al DeRisi (tracks 1, 3 & 9), Joe Ferrante (tracks 1, 3 & 9), Bernie Glow (tracks 1-4, 6 & 9), Louis Oles (tracks 1, 3 & 9), Nick Travis (tracks 2 & 4-8)- trumpet

Joe Singer - French horn (tracks 1, 3 & 9)

Al Epstein - bassoon, English horn (tracks 5, 6 & 8)

Don Butterfield - tuba (tracks 2, 6 & 8)

Gene Quill - alto saxophone (tracks 5, 6 & 8)

Al Cohn - tenor saxophone, clarinet

Ed Wasserman - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 9)

Al Epstein (tracks 1-4 & 9), Sol Schlinger (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9) - baritone saxophone

Hank Jones - piano (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9)

Milt Hinton (tracks 2, 4 & 5-8), Buddy Jones (tracks 1, 3 & 9) - bass

Osie Johnson - drums