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Taylor's Wailers

Art Taylor

Recorded	Feb 25 & Mar 22, 1957
Label	Prestige
Catalog	7117
Released	1957
Personnel	9 credited players
Discogs	master 534274

The record

Coltrane and Rouse trade tenor lines against McLean's alto while two rotating rhythm sections keep the session moving, Bryant and Garland splitting piano duties. One of the few 1957 dates where Taylor got billing above the sidemen he usually anchored.

Session personnel

Jackie McLean — alto saxophone
Paul Chambers — bass
Wendell Marshall — bass
Art Taylor — drums
Ray Bryant — piano
Red Garland — piano
Charlie Rouse — tenor saxophone
John Coltrane — tenor saxophone
Donald Byrd — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 16 pressings on file.

1957	Prestige · 7117 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
2023	Analogue Productions · APRJ 7117 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Mono, 180g Analogue Productions
2013	Analogue Productions · APRJ 7117 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Reissue, Limited Edition, 200 gram · deep groove
2022	Analogue Productions · APRJ 7117 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Mono, 200g · deep groove
1958	Metronome · MEP 404 — Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, EP
1973	Prestige · LPR-8871 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Mono
1973	Prestige · LPR-8871 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1984	Original Jazz Classics
1984	Prestige · 68.413 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1984	Prestige · 8235011 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1992	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-094-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Mono
1992	Prestige · VICJ-23754 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
1996	Prestige · VICJ-2104 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Mono
2006	Prestige · VICJ-41382 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, 20bit K2