Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio

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Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
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Studio album by
Randy Weston
ReleasedEarly February 1956 [1]
RecordedAugust 29 & 31, 1955
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Label Riverside
RLP 12-203
Producer Orrin Keepnews, Bill Grauer
Randy Weston chronology
The Randy Weston Trio
(1955)		Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
(1956)		 With These Hands...
(1956)

Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio is a jazz album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1955 and released on the Riverside label. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Allmusic review by Jim Todd stated: "This early release from Randy Weston finds the pianist still in his formative stages... The set shows Weston's facility with standards, Ellingtonia, even ragtime, but, with several tracks coming in well under four minutes, the performances offer little room for development. The impression here is that of a pianist of great potential limbering up before the curtain rises for the show". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Randy Weston, except as indicated

  1. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:42
  2. "Fire Down There" (Traditional) - recorded by Sonny Rollins and others as "St. Thomas" - 2:51
  3. "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 4:09
  4. "Under Blunder" - 3:06
  5. "Dark Eyes" (Florian Hermann) - 3:34
  6. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:56
  7. "Bass Knows" - 5:15
  8. "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 2:49
  9. "A Ballad" (Sam Gill) - 4:20
  10. "Twelfth Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman) - 2:59

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard Feb 16, 1956
  2. ↑ Riverside Records discography, accessed August 9, 2012.
  3. 1 2 Todd, J. Allmusic Review, accessed August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  206. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1491. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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