Cool struttin '

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Cool struttin '
Studio album by Sonny Clark

Publication
(s)

1958

Label (s) Blue note

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

4/6

running time

37:16

occupation

production

Michael Cuscuna; Alfred Lion

Studio (s)

Van Gelder Studios

chronology
Sonny Clark Quintets
(1958) 		Cool struttin ' Blues in the Night
(1958)

Cool Struttin ' is a jazz album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark that was released on Blue Note in 1958 .

background

The album is considered a milestone in classic hardbop jazz with cult status. The album was recorded with the often underrated Sonny Clark as leader and alto saxophonist Jackie McLean , trumpeter Art Farmer and two members of the Miles Davis Quintet, drummer Philly Joe Jones and bassist Paul Chambers . Art Farmer and Jackie McLean had previously played with Gene Ammons for a number of years . Farmer previously played on the Clark album Dial "S" For Sonny and Paul Chambers played on Sonny's Crib .

Clark had met Paul Chambers in Detroit as early as 1954; Clark only met Philly Joe Jones through his engagement with Miles Davis in 1956. Art Farmer had met Sonny Clark in 1952 at sessions with Wardell Gray in Pasadena. Although influenced by Miles Davis Farmer, Farmer had developed his own distinctive style.

The title track is considered an outstanding, bluesy piece in jazz history and was inspired by Sonny Clark's wife. Clark said:

“I sort of got the name for it from the way the melody goes. It's a feeling of somebody struttin '. [...] It's a 24-bar blues, 12 and then 12. "

“I got the name by the way the melody goes, so to speak. It feels like someone is strutting. [...] It's a 24 bar blues, 12 and then 12. "

The album was released as an LP on Blue Note in 1958 and has since been released on CD several times.

Reviews

The album was received mostly positively to enthusiastically by the audience and critics. Allmusic awarded five out of five possible stars, Jazz.com awarded 92 out of 100 points. All About Jazz called the album "one of the greatest Blue Note albums of all time."

Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who gave the album the highest rating in their Penguin Guide to Jazz , describe it as one of the pianist's most recommendable albums; it is one of the “key works of hard bop”.

Album pieces

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

Bonus tracks

  1. "Royal Flush" - 9:00
  2. "Lover" ( Lorenz Hart , Richard Rodgers ) - 7:03

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Pop Life; Recalling Sonny Clark - The New York Times . www.nytimes.com. Retrieved November 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ StereoTimes - EARTHWORKS AUDIO . www.stereotimes.com. Retrieved November 12, 2009.
  3. ↑ Heart of Darkness: Sonny Clark Remembers April . www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved November 12, 2009.

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