A quartet session in October of 1955 was notable because of the presence of the great Thelonious Monk (a close friend of Gryce) on piano however, later in the month, Gryce assembled a nine-piece ensemble with instrumentation identical to that of the Miles Davis Birth of the Cool recordings for Capitol Records in 19.
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It would be the fledgling Signal Records, a label founded by Jules Colomby, Don S chlitten and Harold Goldberg, that provided Gryce with one of his first opportunities to record as leader, beginning with a novel, early play-along project also involving pianist Duke Jordan, bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Kenny Clarke called The Jazz Laboratory Series (Signal 101) (but not related to the “Jazz Lab” ensembles which Gryce and trumpeter Donald Byrd would assemble in 1957). Originally, from Pensacola, Florida, he settled in the “jazz mecca” after graduating from Boston Conservatory in 1952 and was soon performing and recording with luminaries including Max Roach, Lionel Hampton, Howard McGhee, Tadd Dameron, Art Farmer, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Pettiford. Basheer Qusim 1925-1983), a formally trained musician who, by the mid-1950s, was firmly establishing himself on the New York City jazz scene. One of these was alto saxophonist/composer/arranger Gigi Gryce (George General Grice a.k.a. The innovative approaches of Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers and other California-based artists were beginning to be challenged by a forward-looking group of composer/performers in New York City whose music was being recorded by record labels large and small. Rochester, NY* Jazz Musicians, 1955-1961Īs the evolution of bebop continued during the 1950s, the next chapter in the Birth of the Cool Legacy was written on the East Coast.
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