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Hank Jones Quartet & Quintet

Title: Featuring Donald Byrd

Label: Fresh Sound

Cat No:FSRCD498
Format:CD

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• One of the finest pianists in modern jazz, Hank Jones leads these 1955 New Jersey sessions with high quality personnel : on 3 tracks, he heads a quartet with Donald Byrd, Eddie Jones and Kenny Clarke. On another three, the then-new trumpeter Matty Dice was added to the combo.

• The rhythm section is excellent all the way, with Jones, as usual, unhurried and thoroughly tasteful; on the ballads he evokes more reflective beauty of conception than almost any other of his contemporary pianists.

• Bassist Eddie Jones of the Basie band is also heard in a few full-toned solos, and Clarke holds a pulsating, steady line that could let a soloist walk on the water. Byrd is at his best on all tracks; his tone, phrasing, and ideas are remarkable, and his performance on the two ballads is superb.

• Herbie Mann joins the group as a guest for the closing tune of this CD, offering some free-flowing, remarkably cohesive variations on Charlie Parker’s Bluebird.

Track Listing for Featuring Donald Byrd
1. Almost Like Being In Love
2. An Evening At Papa Joe’s
3. And Then Some
4. Summer’s Gone
5. Don’t Blame Me
6. Hank’s Pranks

Bonus Track
7. Bluebird

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Hank Jones Quartet & Quintet

Featuring Donald Byrd