Dale's Wail
1955 studio album by Roy Eldridge
Dale's Wail | ||||
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Studio album by Roy Eldridge | ||||
Released | 1955 | |||
Recorded | April 20 and December, 1953 New York City and Los Angeles, CA | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Clef MGC 705 | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
Roy Eldridge chronology | ||||
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Dale's Wail is an album by American jazz trumpeter Roy Eldridge recorded in 1953 and originally released on the Clef label.[1][2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating it " features the great swing trumpeter at the peak of his powers".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Roy Eldridge except as indicated
- "Dale's Wail" - 3:42
- "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 3:39
- "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:38
- "Oscar's Arrangement" - 2:40
- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 3:18
- "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin, Ballard MacDonald) - 3:30
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) - 3:06
- "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" (Clarence Muse, Leon René, Otis René) - 3:02
- "Feeling a Draft" - 3:29
- "Don't Blame Me" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 3:10
- "Echoes of Harlem" (Duke Ellington) - 3:59
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) - 3:21
- Recorded in New York City on April 20, 1953 (tracks 1-4) and in Los Angeles, CA in December 1953 (tracks 5-12)
Personnel
- Roy Eldridge - trumpet
- Oscar Peterson - piano, organ
- Herb Ellis (tracks 5-12), Barney Kessel (tracks 1-4) - guitar
- Ray Brown - bass
- Jo Jones (tracks 1-4), Alvin Stoller (tracks 5-12) - drums
References
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- Rockin' Chair [with Buddy Tate, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown] (1951–52)
- Dale's Wail (1953)
- Little Jazz (1954)
- Roy and Diz [with Dizzy Gillespie, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louie Bellson] (1954)
- Roy's Got Rhythm (1955)
- Urbane Jazz [with Benny Carter] (1955)
- Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge (1974)
- The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner [with Big Joe Turner, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry] (1974)
- Happy Time (1975)
- Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975)
- Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1975)
- Heckler's Hop (1995)
- Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (with Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges (1962)
- The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (with Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry) (1975)
- Montreux 1977 (with Oscar Peterson, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Bobby Durham (1977)