The Super Quartet

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The Super Quartet
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Studio album by
Louis Hayes & Company
Released1994
RecordedFebruary 1994
StudioMurec Studio, Milano, Italy
Genre Jazz
Length58:06
Label Timeless
SJP 424
Producer Peter Huijts
Louis Hayes chronology
Blue Lou
(1993)
The Super Quartet
(1994)
Louis at Large
(1996)

The Super Quartet is an album by the drummer Louis Hayes, recorded in Italy in 1994 and released on the Dutch Timeless label. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The AllMusic review called it "easily one of Louis Hayes' best recordings as a leader," stating that "this quartet session ... almost has the flavor of a typical Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers album; although there's no brass, the selections and the hard bop arrangements generally fit". [5]

Track listing

  1. "Bolivia" (Cedar Walton) – 6:40
  2. "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:12
  3. "Up Jumped Spring" (Freddie Hubbard) – 8:17
  4. "In Your Own Sweet Way" (Dave Brubeck) – 8:59
  5. "Chelsea Bridge" (Billy Strayhorn) – 9:41
  6. "Epistrophy" (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) – 6:53
  7. "Blue Lou" (Edgar Sampson, Irving Mills) – 4:56
  8. "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum" (Wayne Shorter) – 6:44

Personnel

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References

  1. Timeless Records SJP series discography accessed April 18, 2017
  2. Louis Hayes catalog accessed April 18, 2017
  3. Louis Hayes Leader Entry accessed April 18, 2017
  4. Louis Hayes: Music accessed April 18, 2017
  5. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. The Super Quartet – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 672. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.