Wynton Kelly!

Wynton Kelly! is an album by jazz pianist Wynton Kelly released on the Vee-Jay label featuring performances by Kelly with Paul Chambers or Sam Jones and Jimmy Cobb recorded in 1961.^[1] Additional performances from these sessions were released as Someday My Prince Will Come.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jim Todd awarded the album 2½ stars and states "a fine example of Kelly relaxed and swinging. Working a similar niche to some of the piano trio work of Red Garland and Ahmad Jamal — two pianists with their own associations with Miles Davis — Kelly takes a selection of well-known standards and energizes them with tasteful, sophisticated, snappy performances, blending in a group of original tunes along the way".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Wynton Kelly except as indicated

1. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 5:53
2. "Make the Man Love Me" (Dorothy Fields, Arthur Schwartz) - 3:39
3. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) - 6:11
4. "The Surrey With the Fringe on Top" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 3:48
5. "Joe's Avenue" aka "Scotch and Water" - 2:51
6. "Sassy" - 5:11
7. "Love, I've Found You" (Danny Small) - 2:36
8. "Gone with the Wind" (Herbert Magidson, Allie Wrubel) - 4:13

• Recorded at Bell Sound Studio A in New York City on July 20 (tracks 3 & 5) & 21 (tracks 1, 2, 4 & 6-8), 1961

Personnel

• Wynton Kelly - piano
• Paul Chambers (tracks 3-5, 7 & 8), Sam Jones (tracks 1, 2 & 6) - bass
• Jimmy Cobb - drums

References