Ray Bryant Plays
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{{Infobox album
| name = Ray Bryant Plays
| type = Studio
| artist = Ray Bryant
| cover = Ray Bryant Plays.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1960
| recorded = October 29 and November 5–6, 1959
| venue =
| studio = New York City
| genre = Jazz
| length = 45:47
| label = Signature
SM/SS 6008
| producer = Bob Thiele
| chronology = Ray Bryant
| prev_title = Alone with the Blues
| prev_year = 1958
| next_title = Little Susie
| next_year = 1959
}}
Ray Bryant Plays is an album recorded by American jazz pianist Ray Bryant recorded in 1959 for the Signature label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/ray-bryant/catalog/#signature-lp-6008 Ray Bryant catalog] accessed April 26, 2017[http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/signature.pdf The labels of Bob Thiele: Signature discography], accessed April 26, 2017[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/ray-bryant-discography/ Enciclopedia del Jazz Ray Bryant discography], accessed April 26, 2017
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
}}
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a strong sampling of Ray Bryant's accessible playing during his early period".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id= mw0000193349 |title=Now's the Time – Review |accessdate=April 25, 2017}}
Track listing
- "Delauney's Dilemma" (John Lewis) – 2:35
- "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:00
- "Misty" (Erroll Garner) – 2:59
- "Sneaking Around" (Ray Bryant) – 3:46
- "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:00
- "Wheatleigh Hall" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
- "Doodlin'" (Horace Silver) – 4:05
- "A Hundred Dreams from Now" (Duke Ellington) – 3:20
- "Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 5:34
- "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 3:08
- "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:50
- "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 3:35
- Recorded in NYC on October 29 (tracks 1 & 5–7), November 5, (tracks 2, 3, 10 & 12), and November 6, 1959 (tracks 4, 8, 9 & 11)