Here's Jaki

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Here's Jaki
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Studio album by
Jaki Byard
Released1961
RecordedMarch 14, 1961
Studio Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
Genre Jazz
Length38:58
Label New Jazz
NJLP 8256
Producer Esmond Edwards
Jaki Byard chronology
Blues for Smoke
(1960)		Here's Jaki
(1961)		 Hi-Fly
(1962)

Here's Jaki is an album by pianist Jaki Byard recorded in 1961 and released on the New Jazz label. [1]

Contents

Music

"Cinco y Quatro" is a calypso in 5
4 time. [2] "Garnerin' a Bit" is a tribute to pianist Erroll Garner. [2] This album is also notable for having the first recorded cover of John Coltrane's jazz composition Giant Steps. [3] The LP's original liner notes state that the composition "D.D.L.J." was named by combining the initials of the first names of Byard, his wife Louise, and the two children they had at the time, Denise and Diane.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The AllMusic site awarded the album 3 stars, stating "This is no standard trio; they're a collective who romps through these seven selections with a surprise or more a minute". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Jaki Byard except as indicated

  1. "Cinco y Quatro" – 6:26
  2. "Mellow Septet" – 5:38
  3. "Garnerin' a Bit" – 5:49
  4. "Giant Steps" (John Coltrane) – 2:22
  5. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now/It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 9:53
  6. "To My Wife" – 5:13
  7. "D.D.L.J." – 3:50

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Prestige Records Catalog: Prestige, New Jazz 8200 series". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott (2003) Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years, p. 610. Backbeat Books.
  3. ↑ SecondHandSongs, accessed March 6, 2022
  4. 1 2 Jaki Byard - Here's Jaki Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic , retrieved 2023-09-26
  5. ↑ Down Beat:February 15, 1962, Vol. 29, No. 4
  6. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 207. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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