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Flutes and Reeds

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Released
  
1955

Artists
  
Frank Wess, Ernie Wilkins

Producer
  
Ozzie Cadena

Genre
  
Jazz

Flutes & Reeds (1955)
  
Top Brass (1955)

Release date
  
1955

Label
  
Savoy Records

Recorded
  
August 2, 1955 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Jazz albums
  
Have You Met Hank Jones, The Hank Jones Quartet‑Quintet, Opus de Jazz, The Jazz Trio of Hank Jon, The Frank Wess Quartet

Flutes & Reeds is an album by American jazz saxophonist/composer/arranger Ernie Wilkins and saxophonist/flautist Frank Wess featuring performances recorded in 1955 and first released on the Savoy label.The Shown cover art is from the 1970's Savoy Jazz re-issue.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Ernie Wilkins except as indicated

  1. "Shorty George" (Count Basie, Andy Gibson)
  2. "Bouncin' with Boots"
  3. "That's a Woman" (Marcel Daniels)
  4. "Doin' the Thing" (Frank Foster)
  5. "Blues in a Cold Water Flat"
  6. "Stereophonic"

Personnel

  • Ernie Wilkins - alto saxophone, arranger, conductor
  • Jerome Richardson, Frank Wess - tenor saxophone, flute
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Eddie Jones - bass
  • Kenny Clarke – drums

    • References

    Flutes & Reeds Wikipedia
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