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The Great Jazz Piano Of Phineas Newborn Jr.

Phineas Newborn Jr.

Recorded	Nov 21, 1961 & Sep 12, 1962
Label	Contemporary Records
Released	1961
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 511614

The record

A dazzling technician too often overshadowed by his own virtuosity, Newborn pairs off with two different bass-and-drums teams here, letting Vinnegar/Turner and Jones/Hayes each color his dense, bebop-schooled attack. Contemporary/OJC's early-60s document of a criminally underrated pianist's command.

Session personnel

Leroy Vinnegar — bass
Sam Jones — bass
Louis Hayes — drums
Milt Turner — drums
Phineas Newborn Jr. — piano

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 28 pressings on file.

1963	Contemporary Records · M3611 — Vinyl, LP, Mono earliest on file
1963	Contemporary Records · SH-3054 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove
1963	Contemporary Records, Inc. · LAC 575 — Vinyl, LP, Mono · laminated sleeve
1963	Contemporary Records · M3611 — Vinyl, LP, Promo, Mono
1963	Contemporary Records · S3611 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1963	Contemporary Records · S7611 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1963	Contemporary Records · S7611 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo
1963	Contemporary Records · S7611 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1963	Contemporary Records · S7611 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo
1975	Contemporary Records · LAX-3040 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo
1979	Contemporary Records · GXC-3108 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1983	Contemporary Records · P-7622 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1988	Contemporary Records · VDJ-1648 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Mono
1989	Original Jazz Classics — STEREO