Top and Bottom Brass
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{{Infobox album
| name = Top and Bottom Brass
| type = Album
| artist = the Clark Terry Quintet with Don Butterfield
| cover = Top and Bottom Brass.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1959
| recorded = February 24 & 26, 1959
New York City
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 42:16
| label = Riverside
RLP 12-295
| producer = Orrin Keepnews
| chronology = Clark Terry
| prev_title = In Orbit
| prev_year = 1958
| next_title = Tate-a-Tate
| next_year = 1960
}}
Top and Bottom Brass is an album by trumpeter Clark Terry featuring performances recorded in early 1959 and originally released on the Riverside label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-200-series/#rlp-12-295 Riverside Records discography] accessed September 17, 2012Lord, T., [http://press.clarkterry.com/CT_Discography.pdf Clark Terry Discography], accessed March 9, 2015
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{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=1393}}
}}
Scott Yanow of Allmusic says, "Terry is in fine form on a variety of blues, originals and obscurities along with the interesting versions of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "A Sunday Kind of Love" but the results overall are not all that significant".Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/top-and-bottom-brass-riverside-mw0000093999 Allmusic Review] accessed September 17, 2012
Track listing
All compositions by Clark Terry except as indicated
- "Mili-Terry" - 4:19
- "The Swinging Chemise" (Duke Ellington) - 6:58
- "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) - 3:13
- "Blues for Etta" - 7:22
- "Top 'n' Bottom" - 4:51
- ""127"" - 8:06
- "A Sunday Kind of Love" (Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, Stan Rhodes) - 3:24
- "Mardi Gras Waltz" - 4:03