The Fox (Harold Land album)

The Fox
Studio album by Harold Land
Released 1960
Recorded August, 1959
Genre Jazz, Hard Bop
Label Hifijazz; reissued by Contemporary
Producer David Axelrod
Harold Land chronology

Harold in the Land of Jazz
(1958)		 The Fox
(1959)		 West Coast Blues!
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz [2]

The Fox is a 1960 album by Harold Land, originally released on the Hifijazz label and reissued by Contemporary in 1969 and on CD by Original Jazz Classics in 1991. The album is notable for the appearance of trumpeter Dupree Bolton.[3]

Reception

Allmusic's Scott Yanow gives the album four and a half stars and describes it as an "excellent straight-ahead quintet set" and "high-quality hard bop".[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz rates the album three and a half stars and describes Land as an "underrated composer with a deep feeling for the blues" and states that The Fox, "tricky and fugitive as much of it is, must be thought his finest moment." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Fox" (Land) 5:36
  2. "Mirror-Mind Rose" (Hope) 6:32
  3. "One Second, Please" (Hope) 5:51
  4. "Sims A-Plenty" (Hope) 6:17
  5. "Little Chris" (Land) 5:10
  6. "One Down" (Hope) 7:23

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Allmusic review
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
  3. ↑ Gioia, Ted: In Search of Dupree Bolton April, 2009 (retrieved 5/15/2013)