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Out Front! (Jaki Byard album)

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Released
  
1965

Artist
  
Jaki Byard

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
44:42

Release date
  
1965

Label
  
Original Jazz Classics

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Recorded
  
March 14, 1961 and May 21 & 28, 1964 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Out Front! (1965)
  
Jaki Byard Quartet Live! (1965)

Similar
  
Jaki Byard albums, Jazz albums

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Out Front! is an album by pianist Jaki Byard recorded in 1964 (with one track from the 1961 session that produced Here's Jaki) and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "this is a surprisingly conventional set... It's fine music but one has to lower expectations a bit".

Track listing

All compositions by Jaki Byard except as indicated

  1. "Out Front" - 4:18
  2. "Two Different Worlds" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne) - 5:25
  3. "Searchlight" - 7:06
  4. "European Episode" - 12:02
  5. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:23
  6. "When Sunny Gets Blue" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) - 5:08
  7. "I Like to Lead When I Dance" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:30
  8. "After the Lights Go Down Low" (Phil Belmonte, Leroy Lovett, Alan White) - 4:50

Personnel

  • Jaki Byard - piano, alto saxophone (track 6)
  • Richard Williams - trumpet (tracks 3, 4, 7 & 8)
  • Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone (tracks 3, 4, 7 & 8)
  • Ron Carter (track 6), Bob Cranshaw (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8) - bass
  • Roy Haynes (track 6), Walter Perkins (tracks 1-5, 7 & 8) - drums

    • Songs

    1Out Front4:18
    2Two Different Worlds5:25
    3Searchlight7:06

    References

    Out Front! (Jaki Byard album) Wikipedia
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