Wardell Gray memorial.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Gray, Wardell, 1921-1955.

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Jazz music library

Original jazz classics

Language:

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Jazz--1941-1950.

Jazz.

Jazz--1951-1960.

Saxophone music (Jazz).

Genre:

Saxophone music (Jazz)

Sound recordings.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Prestige, [1992, c1983]

Contents:

v. 1. Twisted [& 3 alternate takes] (3:02 ; 2:42 ; 3:26 ; 3:12) / Wardell Gray. Easy living [& alternate take] (4:21 ; 4:35) / Robin, Rainger. Southside [& 6 alternate takes] (3:18 ; 2:50 ; 2:39 ; 3:08 ; 3:13 ; 2:45 ; 2:10) / Wardell Gray. Sweet Lorraine / Parish, Burwell (4:02). So long Broadway (3:10) ; Paul's cause (2:55) / Teddy Charles. The man I love / Gershwin, Gershwin (3:07). Lavonne / Sonny Clark (2:55).

v. 2. Blue gray [& 2 alternate takes] (2:40 ; 2:46 ; 2:39) ; Grayhound [& 2 alternate takes] (3:00 ; 2:34 ; 1:07) / Wardell Gray. A sinner kissed an angel / Davis, Joseph (3:05). Treadin' [& 2 alternate takes] (3:42 ; 3:27 ; 3:13) / Wardell Gray. April Skies (3:01) / Buddy Collette. Bright boy (2:47) / Kendall Bright. Jackie (2:32) / Hampton Hawes. Farmer's market (2:45) / Art Farmer. Sweet and lovely (3:14) / Arnheim, Tobias, Lemare. Lover man (2:22) / Davis, Ramirez, Sherman. Move (8:59) / Denzil Best. Scrapple from the Apple (9:43) / Charlie Parker.

Participant:

Wardell Gray, tenor saxophone; with various backup instrumentalists.

Notes:

Originally issued as compact disc.s.

Prestige: OJCCD-050-2--OJCCD-051-2.

Reissue (with exception of alternate takes) of: Prestige: LP 7008--7009.

Vol. 1 recorded Nov. 11, 1949 in New York City (1st-14th works) and Feb. 20, 1952 in Los Angeles (15th-18th). Vol. 2 recorded in Detroit, Apr. 25, 1950 (1st-10th works), in Los Angeles, Jan. 21, 1952 (11th-16th), and at the Hula Hut Club in Los Angeles, Aug. 27, 1950 (17th-18th).

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Jazz music library). Available via World Wide Web.

OCLC:

593839067

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.