Jaki Byard Quartet Live!

Jaki Byard Quartet Live!
Live album by Jaki Byard Quartet
Released	1965
Recorded	April 15, 1965 Lennie's On The Turnpike in West Peabody, Massachusetts
Genre	Jazz
Length	76:03
Label	Prestige PR 7419 and PR 7477
Jaki Byard chronology
Out Front! (1964) Jaki Byard Quartet Live! (1965) The Last from Lennie's (1966)

Jaki Byard Quartet Live! is an album by pianist Jaki Byard recorded in 1965 and originally released on the Prestige label as two long LP records and later reissued in 1992 as a single CD. ^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "The set, recorded live at Lennie's-on-the-Turnpike in Massachusetts, is a superior outing for all of the players... Recommended". ^[2] Gary Giddins was also positive, and picked out "Twelve" from "the inspired quartet performances": "this piece has free episodes resolved by blues choruses, and Byard's comping is so vigorous that he makes the quartet sound like a larger band". ^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Jaki Byard except as indicated

1. "Twelve" – 12:10 Originally released on Vol. 1
2. "Denise" – 9:41 Originally released on Vol. 1
3. "Thing What Is" (Alan Dawson) – 11:36 Originally released on Vol. 1
4. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) – 13:39 Originally released on Vol. 1
5. "Alan's Got Rhythm" (Byard, Dawson) – 10:28 Originally released on Vol. 2
6. "Cathy" (Joe Farrell) – 8:08 Originally released on Vol. 2
7. "Bass-Ment Blues" – 11:18 Originally released on Vol. 2

Personnel

• Jaki Byard – piano
• Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, drums
• George Tucker – bass
• Alan Dawson – drums, vibraphone

References

1. Prestige Records discography accessed July 25, 2012
2. Yanow, Scott AllMusic Review, accessed July 2, 2022
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 35. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 208. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Giddins, Gary (1985) Rhythm-a-ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the 1980s, p. 6. Oxford University Press.

Further reading

• Monson, Ingrid (1996) Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. The University of Chicago Press. (Contains a detailed description and discussion of the performance of "Bass-Ment Blues" from this album.)