Stein,Hal / Fitzgerald,Warren Quintet Hal Stein & Warren Fitzgerald Quintet CD

Hal Stein-Warren Fitzgerald Quintet - When he made his recording debut in 1955 - with an album that was destined to become a cult classic in Japan - Hal Stein was a 27-year-old alto and tenor saxophonist with a solid, big band background. Both he and his co-leader, trumpet player Warren Fitzgerald, another young musician, had just signed for the recently reactivated jazz label, Progressive Records, under the control of Joe Maggio, with Gus Grant in charge of a&r and as session supervisor. - The album revealed Stein as a competent, vigorous soloist, a Bird-molded altoist and a hard-school tenor out of Byas-Hawkins school, and Fitzgerald as a percussive trumpeter with a sharp-toned, rough-edged conception, though not a markedly individual soloist. But the most impressive contributors to the session were also to become the most widely known. Pianist Bob Dorough, later also celebrated as a singer and composer, delivered fluent, inventive solos and offered fine support in a rhythm section notable for the presence of the soon-to-be great and influential drummer, Paul Motian, with Al Cotton on bass.

1. Bee Dees Blues (Dorough) 4:31 2. Zounds (Fitzgerald) 5:32 3. Have You Heard (The Latest Blues in Town) (Newman) 4:49 4. Medley: 7:08 -You Go to My Head (Gillespie-Coots) -Goodbye (Jenkins) 5. The Sarong Is New (Newman) 5:00 6. Nan de Mo Nai (Stein) 6:23 7. Choice Derby (Newman) 5:23 8. This Love of Mine (Parker-Sinacola-Sinatra) 7:45 9. Do You Really Care? (Fitzgerald) 5:21 10. Twonky (Fitzgerald) 5:01 11. Fitz Tune (Fitzgerald) 5:22 12. Cattin (Stein) 5:48 13. Just Friends (Lewis-Klenner) 5:45 14. Bee Dees Blues [Alternate Take] (Dorough) 4:47