Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
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{{Infobox album
| name = Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
| type = Studio
| artist = Randy Weston
| cover = Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio.jpg
| alt =
| released = Early February 1956[https://books.google.com/books?id=4B4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Get+Happy+Randy+Weston+Trio+203&pg=PA24 Billboard Feb 16, 1956]
| recorded = August 29 & 31, 1955
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Riverside
RLP 12-203
| producer = Orrin Keepnews, Bill Grauer
| chronology = Randy Weston
| prev_title = The Randy Weston Trio
| prev_year = 1955
| next_title = With These Hands...
| next_year = 1956
}}
Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio is a jazz album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1955 and released on the Riverside label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-200-series/#rlp-12-203 Riverside Records discography], accessed August 9, 2012.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}
| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen
|url-access=registration
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/206 206]
}}
|rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev3score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1491}}
}}
The Allmusic review by Jim Todd stated: "This early release from Randy Weston finds the pianist still in his formative stages... The set shows Weston's facility with standards, Ellingtonia, even ragtime, but, with several tracks coming in well under four minutes, the performances offer little room for development. The impression here is that of a pianist of great potential limbering up before the curtain rises for the show".Todd, J. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/get-happy-mw0000177201 Allmusic Review], accessed August 9, 2012.
Track listing
All compositions by Randy Weston, except as indicated
- "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:42
- "Fire Down There" (Traditional) - recorded by Sonny Rollins and others as "St. Thomas" - 2:51
- "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 4:09
- "Under Blunder" - 3:06
- "Dark Eyes" (Florian Hermann) - 3:34
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:56
- "Bass Knows" - 5:15
- "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 2:49
- "A Ballad" (Sam Gill) - 4:20
- "Twelfth Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman) - 2:59
Personnel
- Randy Weston - piano
- Sam Gill - bass
- Wilbert Hogan - drums
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Category:Riverside Records albums
Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio