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At Her Majesty's Pleasure....
| Recorded | Sep 1969 |
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| Label | Black Lion Records |
| Released | 1969 |
| Personnel | 16 credited players |
| Discogs | master 303308 |
The record
Clare and Clarke split drum duties while Boland's charts stack Griffin and Ronnie Scott into the same tenor chair, a rare pairing that says plenty about who wanted in on this band. Black Lion documents the group in late-'60s form.
Session personnel
- Derek Humble — alto saxophone
- Jimmy Woode — bass
- Kenny Clare — drums
- Kenny Clarke — drums, leader [co-leader]
- Sahib Shihab — flute, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Francy Boland — piano, leader [co-leader], composed by, arranged by
- Johnny Griffin — tenor saxophone
- Ronnie Scott — tenor saxophone
- Tony Coe — tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Erik Van Lier — trombone
- Nat Peck — trombone
- Åke Persson — trombone
- Derek Watkins — trumpet
- Idrees Sulieman — trumpet
- Kenny Wheeler — trumpet
- Benny Bailey — trumpet, flugelhorn
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
| 1971 | Intercord · 28 416-6 U — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file |
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| 1971 | Black Lion Records · BLP 30109 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
| 1974 | Black Lion Records · (S) 4258 — Vinyl, LP, Album |
| 1975 | Black Lion Records |
| 1975 | Black Lion Records · BL-131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
| 1975 | Black Lion Records · BL-131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, NAMI Pressing |
| 1976 | Intercord · INT 127.011 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold · gatefold |
| 2010 | Rearward · RW 137 CD — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered |
| 2010 | Rearward · RW 137 LP — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 gram |
| — | Intercord · 28 416-6 U — Vinyl, LP, Album, yellow label, gatefold · gatefold |
Follow the players
Derek Humble also plays on
Jimmy Woode also plays on
Kenny Clare also plays on