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Blue Note

5 Impressions Of Color

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Recorded1955
LabelBlue Note
CatalogBLP 5063
Released1955
Personnel10 credited players
Discogsmaster 1155619

The record

Baritone saxophone paired with tuba is a low, strange sound, and that is what Gil Mellé and Don Butterfield give you, with Lou Mecca's guitar and no pianist named in the credits. Rudy Van Gelder engineered and mastered it. Mellé also drew the cover. Four pieces on a ten-inch Blue Note, BLP 5063, Leonard Feather on the back.

Tracks

  1. Five Impressions Of Color
  2. Life Begins at Midnight
  3. Night Train to Wildwood
  4. Threadneedle Street

Session personnel

  • Gil Mellé — Baritone Saxophone, Design [Cover]
  • Bill Phillips — Bass
  • Vinnie Thomas — Drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder — Engineer [Recording]
  • Lou Mecca — Guitar
  • Leonard Feather — Liner Notes
  • Rudy Van Gelder — Mastered By
  • Francis Wolff — Photography By
  • Don Butterfield — Tuba
  • Gil Mellé Quintet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

1955Blue Note · BLP 5063 — Vinyl LP 10" Album Mono earliest on file
1999Blue Note · TOJJ-5063 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Mono
1999Blue Note · TOJJ-5063 — Vinyl, LP, 10", Album, Limited Edition, Promo, Reissue, Mono

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