Dimensions (Maynard Ferguson album)

Dimensions is an album led by jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in early 1954 and mid-1955 and released on the EmArcy label.[1]

Dimensions
Studio album by
Released1955
RecordedFebruary 19 & 23, 1954 and August 26, 1955
Studio
GenreJazz
LabelEmArcy
MG 36044
Maynard Ferguson chronology
Jam Session
(1954)
Dimensions
(1955)
Maynard Ferguson Octet
(1955)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [2]

Billboard in 1955 wrote: "Ferguson plays a cleaner, more purposeful host than has generally been true in the past, in which ideas go volleying back and forth between him and saxophonist Bud Shank, Bob Cooper and Bob Gordon."[3] AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "Although not essential, the bop-oriented music is well-played and gives one a good taste of early Ferguson".[2]

Track listing

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  1. "Egad, Martha" (Bill Holman) - 3:50
  2. "Breakfast Dance" (Holman) - 4:00
  3. "Maiden Voyage" (Willie Maiden) - 2:56
  4. "Thou Swell" (Richard Rodgers Lorenz Hart) - 2:50
  5. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 2:50
  6. "All God's Children Got Rhythm" (Bronislaw Kaper, Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn) - 2:49
  7. "Slow Stroll" (Holman) - 2:40
  8. "Wonder Why" (Nicholas Brodzsky, Sammy Cahn) - 3:27
  9. "Willie Nillie" (Maiden) - 2:41
  10. "Hymm to Her" (Maiden) - 2:14
  11. "Lonely Town" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein) - 2:56
  12. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen) - 3:00
  • Recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on February 19, 1954 (tracks 3-6 & 9), and at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles on February 23, 1954 (tracks 10-12) and August 26, 1955 (tracks 1, 2, 7 & 8)

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ EmArcy Records discography accessed September 28, 2012
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 28, 2012
  3. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums". Billboard. Vol. 67, no. 8. February 19, 1955. p. 34.