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The Chicago Sessions

The Chicago Sessions cover
RecordedMar 1961
LabelArgo
Released1961
Personnel5 credited players
Discogsmaster 1061740

The record

Chess's jazz arm brought this pianist back into view with Bill Hardman's trumpet and a two-drummer lineup pushing the session forward. His playing reads clean and harmonically sharp, carrying traces of the bebop language he'd absorbed years earlier with Bird and Diz.

Session personnel

  • Richard Evans — bass
  • Ben Dixon — drums
  • Marshall Thompson — drums
  • Dodo Marmarosa — piano
  • Bill Hardman — trumpet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1989Affinity · CD AFF 755 — CD, Album
Argo

Follow the players

Richard Evans also plays on

Ben Dixon also plays on

Marshall Thompson also plays on

Dodo Marmarosa also plays on