Three Trumpets is an album by the Prestige All Stars nominally led by trumpeters Art Farmer, Donald Byrd and Idrees Sulieman, recorded in 1957 and released on the New Jazz label.[1]

Three Trumpets
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedJanuary 26, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length39:22
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7092
ProducerTeddy Charles
Idrees Sulieman chronology
Three Trumpets
(1957)
Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors
(1957)
Donald Byrd chronology
The Young Bloods
(1956)
Three Trumpets
(1957)
Jazz Lab
(1957)
Art Farmer chronology
Farmer's Market
(1956)
Three Trumpets
(1957)
Last Night When We Were Young
(1957)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
Down Beat     [2]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic reviewed the album, stating: "Three of the up-and-coming hard bop trumpeters of the 1950s are matched up on this jam session-flavored set. ...Although none of the songs caught on there are some fireworks during these performances".[3]

Track listing edit

  1. "Palm Court Alley" (Idrees Sulieman) – 7:48
  2. "Who's Who?" (Art Farmer) – 6:29
  3. "Diffusion of Beauty" (Hod O'Brien) – 7:01
  4. "Forty Quarters" (Sulieman) – 4:34
  5. "You Gotta Dig It to Dig It" (Donald Byrd) – 13:30

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed March 30, 2015
  2. ^ Down Beat: January 23, 1958 Vol. 25, No. 2
  3. ^ a b Yanow, S., AllMusic Review, March 30, 2015