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Released
  
1955

Nica's Tempo (1955)
  
Jazz Lab (1957)

Release date
  
1955

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
October 15 & 22, 1955

Artist
  
Gigi Gryce

Label
  
Savoy Jazz

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Similar
  
Gigi Gryce albums, Jazz albums

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Nica's Tempo is an album by Gigi Gryce recorded in 1955. The title track is a reference to Nica de Koenigswarter (born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild) a.k.a. "The Bebop Baroness" or "The Jazz Baroness", a patron of jazz musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

Contents

The album was originally issued as Gigi Gryce Quartet And Orchestra (Signal S 1201). The Signal masters were later acquired by Savoy Records, who reissued this album in 1958.

Track listing

  1. "Speculation" (Horace Silver) – 4:03
  2. "In a Meditating Mood" (Gigi Gryce) – 4:22
  3. "Social Call" (Gryce, Jon Hendricks) – 2:43
  4. "Smoke Signal" (Gryce) – 3:42
  5. "(You'll Always Be) The One I Love" (Gryce) – 3:28
  6. "Kerry Dance" (traditional) – 3:00
  7. "Shuffle Boil" (Thelonious Monk) – 4:59
  8. "Brakes Sake" (Monk) – 4:45
  9. "Gallop's Gallop" (Monk) – 5:25
  10. "Nica's Tempo" (Gryce) – 6:06

Personnel

  • Gigi Gryce – alto sax (all tracks)

    • Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 22, 1955

  • Art Farmer – trumpet
  • Jimmy Cleveland – trombone
  • Gunther Schuller – french horn
  • Bill Barber – tuba
  • Danny Bank – baritone sax
  • Horace Silver – piano
  • Oscar Pettiford – bass
  • Kenny Clarke – drums

    • Tracks 3, 5: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 22, 1955

  • Art Farmer – trumpet
  • Eddie Bert – trombone
  • Julius Watkins – french horn
  • Bill Barber – tuba
  • Cecil Payne – baritone sax
  • Horace Silver – piano
  • Oscar Pettiford – bass
  • Art Blakey – drums
  • Ernestine Anderson – vocals

    • Tracks 7-10: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 15, 1955

  • Thelonious Monk – piano
  • Percy Heath – bass
  • Art Blakey – drums

    • Songs

    1Speculation4:08
    2In a Meditating Mood4:27
    3Social Call2:46

    References

    Nica's Tempo Wikipedia
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