Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio

Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
Studio album by Randy Weston
Released	Early February 1956 [1]
Recorded	August 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]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[5]

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

• Randy Weston - piano
• Sam Gill - bass
• Wilbert Hogan - drums

References

1. "Review Spotlight on... Jazz | Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio", The Billboard , February 18, 1956, p. 24.
2. Riverside Records discography. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
3. Todd, Jim, "Get Happy Review", AllMusic. Retrieved 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.