Cool Struttin'

Cool Struttin'
Studio album by Sonny Clark
Released 1958
Recorded January 5, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre jazz, hard bop
Length 53:38 (1999 reissue)
Label Blue Note
Producer Michael Cuscuna; Alfred Lion
Sonny Clark chronology
Sonny Clark Quintets
(1958)		 Cool Struttin'
(1958)		 Standards
(1958)
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Allmusic [1]

Cool Struttin' is a 1958 album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark. Described as an "enduring hard-bop classic" by the New York Times,[2] the album features alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, trumpeter Art Farmer and two members of the Miles Davis Quintet, drummer Philly Joe Jones and bassist Paul Chambers. According to The Stereo Times, the album enjoys "a nearly cult status among hardcore jazz followers",[3] a reputation All Music asserts it deserves "for its soul appeal alone".[4]

Originally released on LP in 1958 by Blue Note, the album has been re-released on CD many times by Blue Note and EMI. Two reissues in the mid-2000s include bonus tracks.

Contents

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, tracks composed by Sonny Clark.

  1. "Cool Struttin'" – 9:24
  2. "Blue Minor" – 10:19
  3. "Sippin' at Bells" (Miles Davis) – 8:19
  4. "Deep Night" (Charles Henderson, Rudy Vallée) – 9:34

US bonus tracks

  1. "Royal Flush" – 9:00[5]
  2. "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 7:03

Personnel

Performance

Production

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Palmer, Robert. (March 18, 1987) The Pop Life; recalling Sonny Clark. New York Times. Accessed October 28, 2007.
  3. ^ Merod, Jim. (September 10, 2002). Music in the Key of Clark: Remembering Sonny Clark. The Stereo Times. Accessed October 28, 2007.
  4. ^ Cool Struttin' review at Allmusic
  5. ^ Cool Struttin' (US Bonus Tracks) at Allmusic