Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks
A Long Drink Of The Blues
| Recorded | Feb 15 & Aug 30, 1957 |
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| Label | Prestige |
| Catalog | 8253 |
| Released | 1957 |
| Personnel | 9 credited players |
| Discogs | master 392606 |
The record
Prestige rotates its cast here -- Waldron and Coggins trading piano, Chambers and Phipps splitting bass -- giving this session a loose, shifting frontline energy. Curtis Fuller's trombone thickens the horn charts, adding brassier weight than McLean's small-group dates usually carry.
Session personnel
- Jackie McLean — alto saxophone
- Art Phipps — bass
- Paul Chambers — bass
- Art Taylor — drums
- Louis Hayes — drums
- Gil Coggins — piano
- Mal Waldron — piano
- Curtis Fuller — trombone
- Webster Young — 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 26 pressings on file.
| 1961 | Prestige · 8253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Wide DG earliest on file · deep groove; RVG stamp |
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| 1961 | New Jazz · MJ-7025 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove |
| 1962 | Prestige · 8253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Narrow DG · deep groove; RVG stamp |
| 1963 | Prestige · 8253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, No DG · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | New Jazz · 8253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | Status Records (2) · ST 8253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |
| 1964 | Prestige · 8253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Mono |
| 1967 | XTRA · XTRA 5030 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |
| 1976 | Prestige · SMJ-6507(M) — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |
| 1976 | Prestige · SMJ-6507(M) — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Mono |
| 1986 | Original Jazz Classics — MONO |
| 1986 | Original Jazz Classics · OJC-253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue |
| 1986 | Original Jazz Classics · OJC-253 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Carrollton Pressing |
| 1989 | Roots Record Company · FANT 102 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono |
Follow the players
Jackie McLean also plays on
Art Phipps also plays on
Paul Chambers also plays on