Released 1961 Producer Fred Norsworthy | Length 66:40 CD reissue Reaching Out(1961) Bash!(1962) Release date 1961 | |
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Recorded March 15, 1961Bell Sound Studios, NYC Label Jazztime JT 003Muse MR 5014Black Lion BLCD 760129 Similar Dave Bailey albums, Jazz albums | ||
Reaching Out is an album by jazz drummer Dave Bailey which was originally released on the Jazztime label in 1961. The album is notable for featuring some of the earliest recorded performances of guitarist Grant Green and was re-released under Green's name as Green Blues in 1973 on the Muse label and under the original title on the Black Lion label with 3 alternate takes in 1989.
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Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars with a review stating, "The cool, spacious, thoughtful and unhurried sound of Haynes dominates this recording, as Green barely comes up for air on solos or the occasional joint melody line. Billy Gardner, better known as an organist, plays beautifully and with feeling on the piano, while bassist Ben Tucker and the great drummer Dave Bailey team up to provide the perfect, steady rhythmic foundation so essential to great mainstream jazz expressionism".
Track listing
- "Reaching Out" (Rudy Schaffer) - 5:23
- "Our Miss Brooks" (Harold Vick) - 6:49
- "A Flick of a Trick" (Ben Tucker) - 7:51
- "One for Elena" (Billy Gardner) - 6:09
- "Baby You Should Know It" (Tucker) - 9:14
- "Falling in Love with Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:26
- "Reaching Out" [alternate take] (Schaffer) - 6:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Our Miss Brooks" [Take 1] (Vick) - 10:14 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "One for Elena" [Take 4] (Gardner) - 7:52 Bonus track on CD reissue