Speed Trap

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Speed Trap
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Live album by
ReleasedApril 23, 1996
RecordedSeptember 1994
Genre Jazz
Length74:19
Label Jazz House
Producer Chris Lewis, Peter King
Peter King chronology
Tamburello
(1994)
Speed Trap
(1996)
Lush Life
(1998)
Professional ratings
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Musicweb International (?) [2]

Speed Trap is a live jazz album by Peter King, recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Frith Street, London) in September 1994, and released in 1996 under the Ronnie Scotts Jazz House label. [3] It features British/Canadian trumpet player Gerard Presencer who is now head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Mr. Silver" (Sylvain Beuf) – 13:48
  2. "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 15:37
  3. "T.N.K." (unknown) – 12:40
  4. "Naima" (John Coltrane) – 10:10
  5. "Speed Trap" (King) – 12:06
  6. "Getting On" (King) – 9:48

Personnel

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References

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 825. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. Musicweb International review
  3. Allmusic: Speed Trap accessed 12 May 2010