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  • Artist: Wynton Kelly
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1951
  • Total Time: 58:10
  • Type: Instrumental
  • Genre: Jazz

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The obscure music on this CD has rarely been reissued. Pianist Wynton Kelly is heard with a trio (Franklin Skeete or Oscar Pettiford on bass and drummer Lee Abrams) at the age of 19 when he was working as an accompanist for Dinah Washington. Featured on this recording a year before he joined Dizzy Gillespie and seven years before his next date as a leader, Kelly in 1951 was already long on his way to achieving his own sound. Influenced most by Bud Powell but also displaying some of the joy of Teddy Wilson's style along with his own chord voicings, Kelly gives listeners no hints on this enjoyable CD (which has two complete sessions plus three alternate takes) that he was still a teenager. [Originally released in 1951, Piano Interpretations was reissued on an import-only Japanese CD in 2000.] ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi

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Piano Interpretations
Studio album by Wynton Kelly
Released 1951
Recorded July 25 & August 1, 1951
Genre Jazz
Length 58:10
Label Blue Note
Wynton Kelly chronology
Piano Interpretations
(1951)		 Piano
(1958)

Piano Interpretations is the debut album by jazz pianist Wynton Kelly released on the Blue Note label featuring performances by Kelly with Oscar Pettiford/Franklin Skeete, and Lee Abrams recorded in 1951.[1] The CD reissue features 11 additional tracks.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Kelly in 1951 was already long on his way to achieving his own sound. Influenced most by Bud Powell but also displaying some of the joy of Teddy Wilson's style along with his own chord voicings, Kelly gives listeners no hints on this enjoyable CD (which has two complete sessions plus three alternate takes) that he was still a teenager".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]

Track listing

  1. "Blue Moon" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 3:09
  2. "Fine and Dandy" (Paul James, Kay Swift) - 2:50
  3. "I Found a New Baby" (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams) - 2:53
  4. "Cherokee" (Ray Noble) - 3:08
  5. "Born to Be Blue" (Mel Torme, Robert Wells) - 3:26
  6. "Where or When" (Hart, Rodgers) - 2:52
  7. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) - 3:29
  8. "Moonglow" [alternate take] (DeLange, Hudson, Mills) - 3:11
  9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:04
  10. "Born to Be Blue" [alternate take] (Torme, Wells) - 3:00
  11. "Goodbye" [1st Take] (Gordon Jenkins) - 2:23
  12. "Goodbye" [2nd Take] (Jenkins) - 2:47
  13. "Foolin' Myself" (Jack Lawrence, Peter Tinturin) - 3:03
  14. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 3:03
  15. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 3:04
  16. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 3:11
  17. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) - 3:26
  18. "Crazy He Calls Me" (Bob Russell, Carl Sigman) - 3:18
  19. "Opus Caprice" (Al Haig) - 2:53
  • Recorded at WOR Studios in New York City on July 25, 1951 (tracks 1-10) and August 1, 1951 (tracks 11-19).

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Wynton Kelly discography accessed February 26, 2010
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed February 26, 2010

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