WHYNTON KELLY - KELLY GREAT

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Wynton Kelly - Kelly Great

Pianist Wynton Kelly teams up with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones for a fine, advanced hard bop date. There are four originals (all virtually forgotten decades later) by Kelly, Shorter and Morgan but it is the lone standard, a playful version of "June Night" (which has some puckish Morgan trumpet), that is the standout. At 35 minutes, this CD reissue of a former LP is pretty brief, but what is here on the formerly rare session should satisfy collectors of the style.

Scott Yanow

Source : http://www.allmusic.com/album/kelly-great-r167860

Wynton KellyKelly Great
Tracks

1 Wrinkles (Kelly) 8:05
2 Mama "G" (Shorter) 7:42
3 June Night (Baer, Friend) 8:23
4 What I Know (Morgan) 8:01
5 Sydney (Shorter) 3:55

Personnel
Lee Morgan - tp
Wayne Shorter - ts
Wynton Kelly - p
Paul Chambers - b
Philly Joe Jones - dr

Recorded in New York City ; 1960