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When Farmer Met Gryce

by: Art Farmer & Gigi Gryce

Release Date October 21, 1994
Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. ... Read More:

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Basel 1953 - Part 2

by: Lionel Hampton, Art Farmer, Clifford Brown, Quincy Jones, Jimmy Cleveland, Gigi Gryce

Release Date June 09, 2008
Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. ... Read More:

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Swiss Radio Days Vol.17: Basel 1953

by: Lionel Hampton, Art Farmer, Clifford Brown, Quincy Jones, Jimmy Cleveland, Gigi Gryce

Release Date August 06, 2007
Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. ... Read More:

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Jazz Lab/Modern Jazz Perspective

by: Donald & Gigi Gryce Byrd

Release Date October 20, 1995
Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. ... Read More:

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The Rat Race Blues [Us Import]

by: Gigi Gryce

Release Date December 23, 1999
Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. ... Read More:

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Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet [Us Import]

by: Gigi Gryce

Release Date December 23, 1999
Art Farmer and Gigi Gryce's "When Farmer Met Gryce" is one of the best pre-Jazztet recordings by the great, late trumpeter. Originally released as two 10-inch LPs, "When Farmer Meets Gryce" is actually two sessions. The first four tunes are from a May 19, 1954 performance featuring the rhythm trio of Horace Silver, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke, and tracks 5-8 are from a May 26, 1955 date with Freddie Redd, Art's brother Addison and Art Taylor. Of course, Art plays trumpet and Gigi Gryce is on alto sax on both sessions. All eight of the disc's compositions were penned by Gryce, who along with Farmer's future Jazztet co-founder Benny Golson, was one of Prestige's (and the late 50s jazz scene in general) best writer/arrangers. ... Read More:

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Nica's Tempo

by: Gigi Gryce

Release Date October 01, 1997
This excellent CD by the underrated altoist/composer Gigi Gryce comprises two sessions recorded in 1955. The first six tracks are by a nine-piece group featuring exactly the same instrumentation as Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool band with Ernestine Anderson singing on two tracks.
What makes this CD absolutely essential, however, are four great quartet tracks featuring Thelonious Monk on piano with Art Blakey & Percy Heath.
These include three rarely heard Monk compositions:- Shuffle Boil, Brake's Sake, Gallop's Gallop plus Gryce's standard Nica's Tempo.
This is an intriguing album that needs rescuing from obscurity and which deserves a place in any modern jazz collection.

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The Rat Race Blues [CASSETTE]

by: Gigi Gryce

Release Date October 17, 1990
This excellent CD by the underrated altoist/composer Gigi Gryce comprises two sessions recorded in 1955. The first six tracks are by a nine-piece group featuring exactly the same instrumentation as Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool band with Ernestine Anderson singing on two tracks.
What makes this CD absolutely essential, however, are four great quartet tracks featuring Thelonious Monk on piano with Art Blakey & Percy Heath.
These include three rarely heard Monk compositions:- Shuffle Boil, Brake's Sake, Gallop's Gallop plus Gryce's standard Nica's Tempo.
This is an intriguing album that needs rescuing from obscurity and which deserves a place in any modern jazz collection.

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Sayin' Somethin'!

by: Gigi Gryce

Release Date January 25, 1995
This excellent CD by the underrated altoist/composer Gigi Gryce comprises two sessions recorded in 1955. The first six tracks are by a nine-piece group featuring exactly the same instrumentation as Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool band with Ernestine Anderson singing on two tracks.
What makes this CD absolutely essential, however, are four great quartet tracks featuring Thelonious Monk on piano with Art Blakey & Percy Heath.
These include three rarely heard Monk compositions:- Shuffle Boil, Brake's Sake, Gallop's Gallop plus Gryce's standard Nica's Tempo.
This is an intriguing album that needs rescuing from obscurity and which deserves a place in any modern jazz collection.

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And the Jazz Lab Quintet

by: Gigi Gryce

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This excellent CD by the underrated altoist/composer Gigi Gryce comprises two sessions recorded in 1955. The first six tracks are by a nine-piece group featuring exactly the same instrumentation as Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool band with Ernestine Anderson singing on two tracks.
What makes this CD absolutely essential, however, are four great quartet tracks featuring Thelonious Monk on piano with Art Blakey & Percy Heath.
These include three rarely heard Monk compositions:- Shuffle Boil, Brake's Sake, Gallop's Gallop plus Gryce's standard Nica's Tempo.
This is an intriguing album that needs rescuing from obscurity and which deserves a place in any modern jazz collection.