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Product Identifiers
ProducerPeter Leitch
Record LabelCriss Cross
UPC8712474103621
eBay Product ID (ePID)12050181803
Product Key Features
Release Year1988
FormatCD
InstrumentPiano
GenreJazz
Run Time50 Mins 41 Seconds
ArtistBenny Green Quintet (Piano)
Release TitlePrelude
Additional Product Features
DistributionCity Hall
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Number of Discs1
EngineerRudy VanGelder
Additional informationPersonnel: Benny Green (piano); Javon Jackson (tenor saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Tony Reedus (drums). Liner Note Author: Stanley Crouch. Recording information: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (02/22/1988). Photographer: David Tan. Pianist Benny Green's debut as a leader (the first of two Criss Cross releases) was indeed a prelude to his long string of Blue Note recordings. Already a brilliant player who had been in Betty Carter's group and with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for a year, Green was at 24 on the brink of jazz stardom. He holds his own with some notable sidemen (trumpeter Terence Blanchard, tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Tony Reedus), performing Duke Ellington's "Take the Coltrane," a pair of obscurities and two of his originals. The music is advanced hard bop and easily recommended to straight-ahead jazz fans. ~ Scott Yanow
Number of Audio ChannelsStereo
