Storm Warning!

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Storm Warning!
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Live album by
Released1965
RecordedNovember 22 and 29, 1965
Genre Jazz
Label Mercury
Dick Morrissey chronology
There and Back
(1964/65)
Storm Warning!
(1965)
Sonny Stitt / Live at Ronnie Scott's
(1965)

Storm Warning! is the fourth Dick Morrissey Quartet album. It was recorded live at The Bull's Head, London, on 22 and 29 November 1965. [1] It was reissued around 1996 by HomeGrown Records. [2]

Contents

Reception

A reviewer for The Irish Times commented that the piano was "somewhat strangely recorded", but that the album was "a marvellous example of straight ahead, inventive and highly individual mainstream/bop". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Storm Warning" - (Harry South)
  2. "What Is There to Say" - (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg)
  3. "Come Rain Or Come Shine" - (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  4. "Wind of Change" - (Harry South)
  5. "Get Out of Town" - (Cole Porter)
  6. "March On" - (Dick Morrissey)

Personnel

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References

  1. Ruppli, M. and Novitsky, E. The Mercury Labels: A Discography. Greenwood Press, 1993
  2. 1 2 Comiskey, Ray (12 April 1996). "Dick Morrissey: "Storm Warning!"". The Irish Times . Retrieved 24 July 2022.