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You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce!

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Released
  
1957

You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce! (1956-57)
  
Carl's Blues (1957-58)

Release date
  
1957

Label
  
Trunk Records

Length
  
44:39

Artist
  
The Curtis Counce Group

Producer
  
Lester Koenig

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
October 8 & 15, 1956, April 27, May 13 and September 3, 1957 Contemporary Studios in Los Angeles, California

Similar
  
The Curtis Counce Group, Carl's Blues, Harold in the Land of Jazz, The Fox, Leroy Walks!

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You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce! (later released as Councelation) is an album by American jazz bassist Curtis Counce recorded in 1956 and 1957 and released on the Contemporary label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "this was a band with plenty of solo strength. Their second Contemporary recording features five standards and two numbers by the leader. This excellent music falls somewhere between hard bop and cool jazz".

Track listing

All compositions by Curtis Counce except as indicated

  1. "Complete" - 5:51
  2. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) - 6:35
  3. "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) - 5:36
  4. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 4:31
  5. "Stranger in Paradise" (Alexander Borodin, George Forrest, Robert Wright) - 7:03
  6. "Counceltation" - 6:01
  7. "Big Foot" (Charlie Parker) - 9:02
  • Recorded at Contemporary Studios in Los Angeles, CA on October 8, 1956 (track 7), October 15, 1956 (track 5), April 27, 1957 (tracks 3 & 6), May 13, 1957 (tracks 1 & 2) and September 3, 1957 (track 3)

    • Personnel

  • Curtis Counce - bass
  • Jack Sheldon - trumpet
  • Harold Land - tenor saxophone
  • Carl Perkins - piano
  • Frank Butler - drums

    • Songs

    1Complete5:56
    2How Deep Is the Ocean6:42
    3Too Close for Comfort5:40

    References

    You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce! Wikipedia
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