Manhattan Project | ||||
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Released | 1978 | |||
Recorded | January 17, 1978 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 47:16 | |||
Label | Bee Hive | |||
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Manhattan Project is an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece featuring performances recorded in 1978 and released on the Bee Hive label. In 2015, Mosaic Records included this recording in The Complete Bee Hive Sessions (Mosaic MD12-261), a 12-CD box set. [1]
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Hopefully, this highly enjoyable Bee Hive LP will someday be rediscovered and reissued on CD". [2]
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