Kenny Drew Trio

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Kenny Drew Trio
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Studio album by
Kenny Drew
Released1956
RecordedSeptember 20 & 26, 1956
New York City
StudioReeves Sound Studios
Genre Jazz
Length42:51
Label Riverside
RLP 12-224 [1]
Producer Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer
Kenny Drew chronology
Embers Glow
(1956)		Kenny Drew Trio
(1956)		 A Harry Warren Showcase
(1957)

Kenny Drew Trio is an album by pianist Kenny Drew, recorded in 1956 and released on Riverside. [2] [3] The album features Drew's tribute to jazz patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter "Blues for Nica". This band was the rhythm section the following year on sessions for John Coltrane that yielded Blue Train .

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Reception

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Although Drew would have to move to Europe in the early '60s in order to get the recognition he deserved, it is obvious (in hindsight) from this enjoyable date that he was already a major improviser." [4]

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide. Penguin. ISBN   9781440229169 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Mathieson, Kenny (March 1, 2012). Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65. Canongate Books. ISBN   9780857866165 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Kenny Drew discography accessed June 7, 2012
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Kenny Drew Trio – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  65. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  6. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 403. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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