Ray Bryant Plays
1960 studio album by Ray Bryant
Ray Bryant Plays | ||||
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Studio album by Ray Bryant | ||||
Released | 1960 | |||
Recorded | October 29 and November 5–6, 1959 | |||
Studio | New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 45:47 | |||
Label | Signature SM/SS 6008 | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
Ray Bryant chronology | ||||
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Ray Bryant Plays is an album recorded by American jazz pianist Ray Bryant recorded in 1959 for the Signature label.[1][2][3]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [4] |
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a strong sampling of Ray Bryant's accessible playing during his early period".[4]
Track listing
- "Delauney's Dilemma" (John Lewis) – 2:35
- "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:00
- "Misty" (Erroll Garner) – 2:59
- "Sneaking Around" (Ray Bryant) – 3:46
- "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:00
- "Wheatleigh Hall" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
- "Doodlin'" (Horace Silver) – 4:05
- "A Hundred Dreams from Now" (Duke Ellington) – 3:20
- "Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 5:34
- "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 3:08
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:50
- "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 3:35
- Recorded in NYC on October 29 (tracks 1 & 5–7), November 5, (tracks 2, 3, 10 & 12), and November 6, 1959 (tracks 4, 8, 9 & 11)
Personnel
- Ray Bryant – piano
- Tommy Bryant – bass
- Oliver Jackson – drums
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- Meet Betty Carter and Ray Bryant (with Betty Carter, 1955)
- Ray Bryant Trio (1956)
- Ray Bryant Trio (1957)
- Alone with the Blues (1958)
- Ray Bryant Plays (1959)
- Little Susie (1959 & 1960)
- Madison Time (1960)
- Con Alma (1960 & 1961)
- Dancing the Big Twist (1960 & 1961)
- Hollywood Jazz Beat (1962)
- Groove House (1963)
- Soul (1964)
- Gotta Travel On (1966)
- Lonesome Traveler (1966)
- Slow Freight (1966)
- Take a Bryant Step (1967)
- Up Above the Rock (1968)
- Sound Ray (1969)
- MCMLXX (1970)
- Here's Ray Bryant (1976)
- Solo Flight (1976)
- All Blues (1978)
- Live at Basin Street East (1964)
- Cold Turkey (1964)
- The Ray Bryant Touch (1967)
- Alone at Montreux (1972)
- Montreux '77 (1977)