Atlantic · in the Kissa Kissa racks

The Teddy Charles Tentet

Recorded	Jan 6-17, 1956
Label	Atlantic
Released	1956
Personnel	11 credited players
Discogs	master 373244

The record

Ten pieces deep, this Atlantic date puts Gigi Gryce and George Russell charts to work testing how far arranged jazz could bend cool tones toward something stranger. Raney and Waldron move through crowded voicings built for texture, not solos -- a high point for the label's compositional wing.

Session personnel

Teddy Kotick — bass
Joe Harris — drums
Jimmy Raney — guitar
Mal Waldron — piano
Gigi Gryce — saxophone [alto]
George Barrow — saxophone [baritone]
Sol Schlinger — saxophone [baritone]
J.R. Monterose — saxophone [tenor]
Art Farmer — trumpet
Don Butterfield — tuba
Teddy Charles — vibraphone

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 20 pressings on file.

1956	Atlantic · 1229 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1956	London Records · LTZ-K15034 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1956	London Records · LTZ-K15034 — Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Album, Test Pressing, Mono · laminated sleeve
1956	Atlantic · AT 1229 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1956	London Records · LTZA-15034 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1956	London Records · LTZ-K.15034 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1968	Atlantic · SMT-1038 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1972	Atlantic · P-6054A — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, ¥2,000
1972	Atlantic · P-6054A — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, ¥1,800
1976	Atlantic — MONO
1988	Atlantic · 90983-1 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1988	Atlantic Jazz · 7 90983-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Mono
1988	Atlantic · 7 90983-4 — Cassette, Album, Reissue
1988	Atlantic · 30XD-1035 — CD, Album, Reissue