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Jam Session
Live album by
Released1954
RecordedAugust 14, 1954
Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Length46:47
Label EmArcy
MG 36002
Maynard Ferguson chronology
Jam Session featuring Maynard Ferguson
(1954)
Jam Session
(1954)
Dimensions
(1955)
Clifford Brown chronology
Best Coast Jazz
(1954)
Jam Session
(1955)
Clifford Brown All Stars
(1956)

Jam Session is a live album by trumpeters Clifford Brown, Clark Terry, and Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in early 1954 and released on the EmArcy label. [1] The album was recorded at the same session that produced Dinah Washington's Dinah Jams. [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [3]

Billboard in 1955 wrote: "Good as all the sidemen are, it's the three trumpets which walk off with top honors. Recording is excellent." [2] AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and Scott Yanow, in his review, calls it "A brilliant set that is highly recommended". [3]

Track listing

  1. " What Is This Thing Called Love?" ( Cole Porter) – 14:56
  2. " Darn That Dream" ( Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:16
  3. "Move" ( Denzil Best) – 14:28
  4. " My Funny Valentine/ Don't Worry 'bout Me/ Bess, You Is My Woman Now/ It Might as Well Be Spring" ( Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers/ Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler/ George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin/ Oscar Hammerstein II, Rogers) – 11:29

Personnel

References

  1. ^ EmArcy Records discography accessed September 28, 2012
  2. ^ a b "Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums". Billboard. Vol. 67, no. 8. February 19, 1955. p. 34.
  3. ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review accessed September 28, 2012