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Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette

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Released
  
1956

Producer
  
Richard Bock

Genre
  
Jazz

Release date
  
1956

Label
  
Vogue Records

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Recorded
  
August 4 & 23, 1955 The Strollers in Long Beach and Radio Recorders in Hollywood, CA

Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette (1955)
  
The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet (1955)

Artists
  
Chico Hamilton, The Chico Hamilton Quintet

Similar
  
Chico Hamilton albums, Jazz albums

Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette (rereleased as Spectacular!) is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet featuring multi-instrumentalist Buddy Collette released on the Pacific Jazz label. The album was recorded in 1955 with one side recorded live and the other recorded in the studio.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "A chamber jazz unit that hinted in spots at classical music, this cool jazz band was quite popular for a few years".

Track listing

  1. "A Nice Day" (Buddy Collette) - 2:53
  2. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rogers, Lorenz Hart) - 4:16
  3. "Blue Sands" (Collette) - 6:30
  4. "The Sage" (Fred Katz) - 3:34
  5. "The Morning After" (Chico Hamilton) - 2:07
  6. "I Want to Be Happy" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) - 2:10
  7. "Spectacular" (Jim Hall) - 5:12
  8. "Free Form" (Hamilton, Collette, Hall, Katz, Carson Smith) - 5:00
  9. "Walking Carson Blues" (Smith) - 6:08
  10. "Buddy Boo" (Collette) - 6:16
  • Recorded at The Strollers in Long Beach (tracks 6-10) and Radio Recorders in Hollywood (tracks 1-5)

    • Personnel

  • Chico Hamilton - drums
  • Buddy Collette - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
  • Fred Katz - cello
  • Jim Hall - guitar
  • Carson Smith - bass

    • Songs

    1I Want To Be Happy2:05
    2Spectacular5:04
    3Free Form4:57

    References

    Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette Wikipedia
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