| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Donald Byrd, Phil Woods, Teddy Kotick | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes Personnel: George Wallington (piano); Donald Byrd (trumpet); Phil Woods (alto saxophone); Teddy Kotick (bass); Nick Stabulas (drums). NEW YORK SCENE is the 1957 album from jazz-bop musician George Wallington. This Japanese CD is digitally remastered and is packaged in a limited-edition slipcase. CD comes in Jpn LP Sleeve. Before he retired from music in 1960, pianist George Wallington led a series of excellent bop-based quintet albums. For this particular CD (a reissue of a 1957 date originally put out by New Jazz), Wallington heads a group featuring altoist Phil Woods, trumpeter Donald Byrd, bassist Teddy Kotick, and drummer Nick Stabulas. With the exception of the standard "Indian Summer," the repertoire is pretty obscure (with now-forgotten originals by Byrd, Woods and Mose Allison in addition to "Graduation Day") but of a consistent high quality. The emphasis is on hard-swinging and this set should greatly please straight-ahead jazz fans.
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