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The Jazz Brothers

The Jazz Brothers cover
RecordedAug 8, 1960
LabelRiverside Records
Released1960
Personnel6 credited players
Discogsmaster 640810

The record

A young Chuck and Gap Mangione lead a Rochester-bred sextet through hard-bop paces, with Sal Nistico's tenor already burning hot before his Woody Herman years. Riverside caught the group early, full of Horace Silver-inflected drive and unpolished promise.

Session personnel

  • Larry Combs — alto saxophone
  • Bill Saunders — bass
  • Roy McCurdy — drums
  • Gap Mangione — piano
  • Sal Nistico — tenor saxophone
  • Chuck Mangione — trumpet

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

1960Riverside Records · RLP 9335 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1960Riverside Records — MONO
1994Wave Jazz Classics · WWLJ-7083 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1998Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-997-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered

Follow the players

Roy McCurdy also plays on

Gap Mangione also plays on