Top Brass


Top Brass is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Ernie Wilkins featuring performances recorded in 1955 and first released on the Savoy label. The album consists of five original selections with trumpeters Ray Copeland, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal and Joe Wilder followed by five standards featuring each individually.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars stating "If there's any complaint about this studio date at all, it is the excess reverb used at times, which is surprising due to Rudy Van Gelder's usually impeccable sound".

Track listing

All compositions by Ernie Wilkins except where noted
  1. "58 Market Street" - 4:26
  2. "Trick or Treat" - 5:22
  3. "Speedway" - 4:43
  4. "Dot's What" - 5:41
  5. "Top Brass" - 3:22
  6. "Willow Weep for Me" - 2:16
  7. "Imagination" - 4:41
  8. "It Might as Well Be Spring" - 1:01
  9. "The Nearness of You" - 2:37
  10. "Taking a Chance on Love" - 3:43

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