Monday, June 22, 2015

Wardell Gray Quartet - Easy Living



Wardell Gray - Tenor Sax
Al Haig - Piano
Tommy Potter - Bass
Roy Haynes - Drums

Reading that list of those who Elvin Jones had played with, I realized I hadn't listened to any of the regrettably few recordings of Wardell Gray for a long time. Gray was one of a long list of great jazz musicians who died young.  A lot of them are of songs which have become standards but weren't standards yet.  They became standards largely because such fine musicians chose to play and record them.

Sweet Lorraine


Twisted


Bernie's Tune -  Wardell Gray Quintet


Art Farmer, trumpet
Wardell Gray, tenor sax
Hampton Hawes, piano
Joe Mondragon, bass
Shelly Manne, drums


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