Chun-King

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Chun-King
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Studio album by Bobby Timmons
Released 1964
Recorded August 12, 1964
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length37:09
Label Prestige
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Bobby Timmons chronology
Little Barefoot Soul
(1964)		Chun-King
(1964)		 Workin' Out!
(1964)

Chun-King is an album by American jazz pianist Bobby Timmons recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label. [1]

Bobby Timmons American pianist

Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively.

Prestige Records American jazz record label

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under subsidiaries. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4 stars calling it "an intimate, soulful session that spotlights the range and command of all involved". [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Timmons except where noted.

  1. "Chun-King" (Keter Betts, Charlie Byrd) – 6:36
  2. "Walking Death" – 6:07
  3. "O Grande Amor" (Vinicius de Moraes, Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 6:55
  4. "Gettin' It Togetha'" – 6:50
  5. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 6:24
  6. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:17

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

William Thomas "Keter" Betts was an American jazz double bassist. Born in Port Chester, New York, he was nicknamed "Keter", a short form of the word mosquito.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Bobby Timmons discography accessed February 10, 2011
  2. 1 2 Ankeny, J. Allmusic Review accessed February 10, 2011
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