Rendezvous with Rex
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{{Infobox album
| name = Rendezvous with Rex
| type = Studio
| artist = Rex Stewart
| cover = Rendezvous with Rex.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1958
| recorded = January 28 & 31, 1958
| venue =
| studio = NYC
| genre = Jazz
| length = 39:47
| label = Felsted
FAJ.7001
| producer = Stanley Dance
| chronology = Rex Stewart
| prev_title = The Big Challenge
| prev_year = 1957
| next_title = Henderson Homecoming
| next_year = 1959
}}
Rendezvous with Rex is an album by cornetist Rex Stewart which was recorded in 1958 and released on the Felsted label.[http://www.bsnpubs.com/nyc/felsted/felsted.html Felsted Album Discography]. Retrieved June 30, 2017
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
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Scott Yanow of AllMusic states: "This interesting and well-rounded LP has two separate sessions originally cut for the Felsted label. Cornetist Rex Stewart is fiery on the first date, jamming on a trio of his worthy but obscure originals ... The three numbers from the later date have moody arrangements ... Superior music that will hopefully resurface".{{allMusic|first=Scott|last=Yanow|class=album|id=mw0000903104|title=Rendezvous with Rex – Review|accessdate= June 30, 2017}} Digby Fairweather in the Rough Guide to Jazz wrote: "this is a fine session with Stewart's sometimes buzzy open-horn still in full control".{{cite book
| last = Fairweather
| first = Digby
| year = 2004
| title = The Rough Guiide to Jazz
| publisher = Rough Guides Ltd.
| location = London
| isbn = 1-84353-256-5
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr/page/761 761]
| url-access = registration
| url = https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr/page/761
}}
Track listing
- "Tillies Twist" (Rex Stewart, George Edwin) – 4:39
- "Pretty Ditty" (Stewart, Dick Cary) – 6:26
- "Tell Me More" (Stewart, Edwin) – 8:28
- "Trade Winds" (Stewart, Cary) – 7:22
- "My Kind of Gal" (Stewart, Maurice Goodman) – 5:11
- "Blue Echo" (Stewart, Cary) – 7:41
Personnel
- Rex Stewart – cornet, vocals
- Dick Cary – trumpet, piano (tracks 2 & 4–6)
- George Stevenson – trombone (tracks 1, 3 & 5)
- Garvin Bushell – clarinet, bassoon (tracks 2, 4 & 6)
- Hilton Jefferson – clarinet, alto saxophone (tracks 2, 4 & 6)
- Haywood Henry – clarinet, baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5)
- George Kelly – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3 & 5)
- Willie "The Lion" Smith – piano (tracks 1 & 3)
- Everett Barksdale – guitar (tracks 2, 4 & 6)
- Joe Benjamin (tracks 2, 4 & 6), Leonard Gaskin (tracks 1, 3 & 5) – bass
- Mickey Sheen (tracks 2, 4 & 6), Arthur Trappier (tracks 1, 3 & 5) – drums
References
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