This CD contains the complete sessions for Johnny Coles debut album on Epic "The Warm Sound", which showcased the trumpeter fronting a quartet. The two tracks that were not issued on the original album are included here, as well as three bonus tracks originally recorded for EmArcy in a 1957 small band setting under the leadership of tenor sax Eddie Chamblee.
Tracklist
01. Room 3
02. Where
03. Come Rain Or Come Shine
04. Hi-fly
05. Pretty Strange
06. If I Should Lose You
07. Babes Blues
08. Hi-fly (Alternate Take)
09. Fridays Child *
10. Chamblee Special *
11. Whisper Not *
Album details
Total Time: 64:33 min.
(*) Bonus tracks
Tracks #1-8 from the album "THE WARM SOUND" (Epic 16015)
Track #9, taken from Duke Pearson "HUSH!" (Jazzline JAZ 33-02)
Tracks #10-11, taken from Eddie Chamblee "CHAMBLEE MUSIC" (EmArcy MG36124)
Personnel on #1-8:
Johnny Coles (tp), Kenny Drew (p, #1, 3-6, 8), Randy Weston (p, #2-7), Peck Morrison (b), Charles Persip (d).
Recorded in New York, April 10 & 13, 1961
Personnel on #9:
Johnny Coles (tp), Duke Pearson (p), Bob Cranshaw (b), Walter Perkins (d).
Recorded in New York, January 12, 1962
Personnel on #10-11:
Julian Priester (tb), Eddie Chamblee (ts), Charles Davis (bs), Jack Wilson (p), Richard Evans (b), Charles Persip (d).
Recorded in New York, October 1957
