Blue Spring (album)

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Blue Spring
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Studio album by Kenny Dorham with Cannonball Adderley
Released June 1959[1]
Recorded January 20 (#5-6) & February 18 (#1-4), 1959
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 42:13
Label Riverside
RLP 12-297
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Kenny Dorham chronology
This Is the Moment!
(1958)This Is the Moment!1958
Blue Spring
(1959)
Quiet Kenny
(1959)Quiet Kenny1959
Cannonball Adderley chronology
Things Are Getting Better
(1958)
Blue Spring
(1959)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz 3/4 stars[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 3/5 stars[4]

Blue Spring is a 1959 album by jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley released on the Riverside label, featuring performances by Dorham and Adderley with Dave Amram, Cecil Payne, Cedar Walton, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones or Jimmy Cobb.[5]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album 4 stars and states: "listeners new to the work of Kenny Dorham should definitely consider this somewhat overlooked Riverside date from 1959. The set features plenty of Dorham's varied and sophisticated horn work and four of his top-drawer originals.... Essential listening for Dorham fans."[6] The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars stating "Dorham enjoyed a brief resurgence towards the end of the '50s".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Dorham except as indicated

  1. "Blue Spring" - 7:42
  2. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 7:42
  3. "Poetic Spring" - 6:47
  4. "Spring Is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Rodgers) - 6:39
  5. "Spring Cannon" - 4:53
  6. "Passion Spring" - 8:30

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard June 29, 1959
  2. Allmusic Review
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  5. Cannonball Adderley discography accessed 19 October 2009.
  6. Cook, S. Allmusic Review, accessed 19 October 2009.