Format Details: Special Edition Yellow Vinyl /
Release Date: 29 July 2022
Label: Public Domain Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 710859349648
Description
Sonny Clark was the epitome of cool! He has nearly 300 playing credits to his name. The partial list is staggering. Donald Byrd, Dexter Gordon, John Coltrane, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Criss, Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Lee Morgan and many more.
On Sonny's Crib, Clark used the sextet format consisting of one of the all-time great jazz line ups. John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Paul Chambers, and Art Taylor. Trane had struggled with addiction earlier in the year but by this session had quit heroin for good and was reclaiming his spot as a major force in Jazz. By any measurement Sonny's Crib is a classic that features remarkable solos. Two weeks later Coltrane would record the epic "Blue Train" with Fuller and Chambers. More than a few critics and fans have compared the two.
PLAYERS:
Sonny Clark, piano
John Coltrane, tenor sax
Donald Byrd, trumpet
Curtis Fuller, trombone
Paul Chambers, bass
Art Taylor, drums
Description
Recorded on September 1, 1957 at Rudy Van Gelder's home studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, and released in March 1958, 'Sonny's Crib' is a jazz album released by Sonny Clark when he was just 25 years old. He had moved from Pittsburgh to the West Coast and then New York in the early to mid-1950s and immersed himself in bebop, going on to give his personal touch to the sounds emerging from the birthplace of hard bop. Albums from this period often featured "dream teams" of musicians and 'Sonny's Crib' is a prime example. It's his second album as a leader (after 'Dial "S" for Sonny') and the band is notable because it features a fantastic lineup musicians including Donald Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor and John Coltrane (in his pre-Blue Train period which was recorded just a few weeks later in 1957).
The performance is phenomenal, essential hard bop with some blues and modal elements, with Sonny Clark at the heart of the action. 'Sonny's Crib' that showed that Clark had become one of the best jazz piano talents of that period.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Oliver Nelson
Joni Mitchell
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd
Quincy Jones
John Coltrane
Tom Waits
Billie Holiday & Stan Getz
Sonny Clark
