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Top Brass

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Released
  
1956

Label
  
Savoy MG 12044

Top Brass (1955)
  
The Drum Suite (1956)

Genre
  
Jazz

Producer
  
Ozzie Cadena

Recorded
  
November 8, 1955 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Top Brass (subtitled Featuring 5 Trumpets) is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Ernie Wilkins featuring performances recorded in 1955 and first released on the Savoy label. The album consists of five original selections with trumpeters Ray Copeland, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal and Joe Wilder followed by five standards featuring each individually.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars stating "If there's any complaint about this studio date at all, it is the excess reverb used at times, which is surprising due to Rudy Van Gelder's usually impeccable sound".

Track listing

All compositions by Ernie Wilkins except as indicated

  1. "58 Market Street" (Earl Van Riper, Ernie Wilkins) - 4:26
  2. "Trick or Treat" (Manny Albam, Wilkins) - 5:22
  3. "Speedway" - 4:43
  4. "Dot's What" (Johnny Mandel) - 5:41
  5. "Top Brass" - 3:22
  6. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 2:16
  7. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 4:41
  8. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 1:01
  9. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) - 2:37
  10. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 3:43

Personnel

  • Ernie Wilkins - arranger, conductor
  • Ray Copeland (tracks 1-5 & 10), Idrees Sulieman (tracks 1-5 & 7), Donald Byrd (tracks 1-5 & 8), Ernie Royal (tracks 1-5 & 9), Joe Wilder (tracks 1-6) - trumpet
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Wendell Marshall - bass
  • Kenny Clarke – drums

    • References

    Top Brass Wikipedia
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