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Swings High

Swings High cover
RecordedJun 1967
LabelCadillac Records
Released1967
Personnel5 credited players
Discogsmaster 408517

The record

By the time this one was cut, the working quintet had settled well past the abstraction of the earlier sessions, Goode and Seamen driving a set that swings straight and hard, evidence of British modern jazz standing on its own.

Session personnel

  • Joe Harriott — alto saxophone
  • Coleridge Goode — bass, liner notes
  • Phil Seamen — drums
  • Pat Smythe — piano
  • Stu Hamer — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1970Melodisc (3) · SLP 12-150 — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file
1989Cadillac Records
2004Cadillac Records · SGC/MELCD 203 — CD, Album, Reissue
2022Cadillac Records · SGC/MEL LP 203 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered

Follow the players

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