Jazz Lab
{{about|the 1957 album released on the Columbia label|the 1958 album released on the Jubilee label|Jazz Lab (Jubilee album)|the Melbourne jazz club|The JazzLab}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Jazz Lab
| type = Studio
| artist = Donald Byrd and Gigi Gryce
| cover = Jazz Lab.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1958
| recorded = February 4–5 & March 13, 1957
New York City
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| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Columbia
CL 998{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=Jazz+Lab+donald+byrd+1957&pg=RA6-PA1982|title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide|first=Martin|last=Popoff|date=September 8, 2009|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9781440229169|via=Google Books}}
| producer =
| chronology = Gigi Gryce
| prev_title = Nica's Tempo
| prev_year = 1955
| next_title = Gigi Gryce and the Jazz Lab Quintet
| next_year = 1957
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Donald Byrd
| type = Album
| prev_title = Three Trumpets
| prev_year = 1957
| title = Jazz Lab
| year = 1958
| next_title = At Newport
| next_year = 1957
}}
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Jazz Lab is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd and saxophonist Gigi Gryce, released in 1957 by Columbia.{{Cite web|url=https://news.allaboutjazz.com/gryce-and-byrds-jazz-lab|title=Jazz news: Gryce and Byrd's Jazz Lab|first=All About|last=Jazz|website=All About Jazz News}}[http://www.attictoys.com/GigiGryce/Gigi_Gryce_discography.php Gigi Gryce discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219071634/http://www.attictoys.com/GigiGryce/Gigi_Gryce_discography.php |date=2015-02-19 }} accessed August 31, 2012
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
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AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "With some of the best arrangements heard in jazz and excellent solos by Gryce, Byrd, and Flanagan, Jazz Lab makes for an excellent introduction to the hard bop catalog."Cook, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-lab-mw0000889906 Allmusic Review] accessed August 31, 2012
Track listing
All compositions by Gigi Gryce except as indicated
- "Speculation" (Horace Silver) - 3:38
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 8:21
- "Nica's Tempo" - 5:27
- "Blue Concept" - 5:03
- "Little Niles" (Randy Weston) - 7:04
- "Sans Souci" - 7:17
- "I Remember Clifford" (Benny Golson) - 4:57
- Recorded in New York City on February 4, 1957 (tracks 1 & 3), February 5, 1957 (tracks 2 & 6), and March 13, 1957 (tracks 4, 5 & 7)
Personnel
- Gigi Gryce - alto saxophone
- Donald Byrd - trumpet
- Jimmy Cleveland (tracks 5 & 7), Benny Powell (tracks 1 & 3) - trombone
- Julius Watkins - French horn (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 7)
- Don Butterfield - tuba (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 7)
- Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 7)
- Tommy Flanagan (tracks 1–3 & 6), Wade Legge (tracks 4, 5 & 7) - piano
- Wendell Marshall - bass
- Art Taylor - drums
References
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