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The Chase Is On

Charlie Rouse

Recorded	Aug 29 & Sep 8, 1957
Label	Bethlehem Records
Released	1957
Personnel	7 credited players
Discogs	master 551799

The record

Bethlehem catches Rouse in mainstream swing-to-bop company rather than Monk's angularity, trading choruses with Paul Quinichette's Basie-bred smoothness over Freddie Green's rhythm guitar and a split Hank Jones/Wynton Kelly piano chair.

Session personnel

Wendell Marshall — bass
Ed Thigpen — drums
Freddie Green — guitar
Hank Jones — piano
Wynton Kelly — piano
Charlie Rouse — tenor saxophone
Paul Quinichette — tenor saxophone

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 21 pressings on file.

1957	Bethlehem Records · BCP 6021 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1958	Bethlehem Records · BCP 6021 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1959	Parlophone · PMC 1090 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1961	Angel Records · ASP 1004 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Red Translucent
1981	Bethlehem Records — STEREO
1981	Bethlehem Records · BCP 6038 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1986	Affinity · AFF 154 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1986	Bethlehem Records · BR-5027 — CD, Reissue, Stereo
1987	Fresh Sound Records · FSR-2022 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1999	Bethlehem Records · TOCJ-62012 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2004	Toshiba EMI Ltd · TOCJ-9616 — CD, Album, Promo, Remastered, Stereo, Paper sleeve
2004	Bethlehem Records · TOCJ-9616 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 24bit
2006	Bethlehem Records · TOCJ-6361 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2006	Bethlehem Records · TOCJ-6361 — CD, Album, Promo, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo