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Quartet/Quintet/Sextet 1957

By Lou Donaldson

hard bop, jazz 40 min 10 tracks Blue Note

Quartet/Quintet/Sextet is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson recorded on June 20 and November 19, 1952 and August 22, 1954 and released on Blue Note in 1957. The quartet features rhythm section Horace Silver, Gene Ramey and Art Taylor; the quintet adds trumpeter Blue Mitchell. The sextet features a new lineup, with brass section Kenny Dorham and Matthew Gee and rhythm section Elmo Hope, Percy Heath and Art Blakey.

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Grave, spare, intimate and character-led.

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  • sparerichly built
  • intimateepic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • classical in formformally daring

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