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    02/27/1957

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    All Music Guide Review

    During 1957 altoist Gigi Gryce and trumpeter Donald Byrd co-led a quintet that sought to extend and come up with new variations to bebop. Unfortunately the group did not survive the year but Gryce and Byrd did combine for several memorable recordings, including an excellent Prestige LP reissued on this CD. Their quintet (with pianist Wade Legge, bassist Wendell Marshall, and drummer Art Taylor) turn "Love for Sale" into a jazz waltz (an innovation for 1957), introduce Gryce's best-known composition "Minority," swing "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart," and perform a tricky but memorable blues line "Straight Ahead." This is exciting and still fresh-sounding bebop. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

    Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • time
  • lyrics
  • 1
  • Love for Sale
  • 7:59
  • Sound Clip for Love for Sale from Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet


  • 2
  • Geraldine
  • 5:34
  • Sound Clip for Geraldine from Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet


  • 3
  • Minority
  • 6:26
  • Sound Clip for Minority from Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet


  • 4
  • Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
  • 5:59
  • Sound Clip for Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart from Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet


  • 5
  • Straight Ahead
  • 9:29
  • Sound Clip for Straight Ahead from Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet


  • 6
  • Wake Up!
  • 4:37
  • Sound Clip for Wake Up! from Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet


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