Jazz of Two Cities

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Jazz of Two Cities
Jazz of Two Cities.jpg
Studio album by
Warne Marsh
Released1957
RecordedOctober 3 & 11, 1956
StudioRadio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
GenreJazz
LabelImperial
LP 9027
Warne Marsh chronology
Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh
(1955) 		Jazz of Two Cities
(1957) 		Art Pepper with Warne Marsh
(1956)
The Winds of Marsh cover
The Winds of Marsh.jpg

Jazz of Two Cities, is an album by saxophonist Warne Marsh recorded in 1956 and originally released on the Imperial label.[1][2][3] The album was later released in stereo as The Winds of Marsh which featured different takes of four of the numbers.

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4.5/5 stars[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4 stars[5]

The Allmusic review noted "This is some very fine music by a band with an exceptionally rich collective imagination. It is clear that, in the hands of this combo, every theme is treated like a question with an absolutely limitless amount of harmonic and melodic answers".[4]

Track listing[]

  1. "Smog Eyes" (Ted Brown) – 3:30
  2. "Ear Conditioning" (Ronnie Ball) – 5:13
  3. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 4:27
  4. "Quintessence" (Ball) – 2:13
  5. "Jazz of Two Cities" (Brown) – 4:38
  6. "Dixie's Dilemma" (Warne Marsh) – 4:20
  7. "Tschaikovsky's Opus #42, Mt. 3" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 3:59
  8. "I Never Knew" (Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn) – 5:10

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Edwards, D. & Chapman, M. Imperial Album Discography, Part 2 (1956–1958): LPs 9001-9050 accessed May 12, 2017
  2. ^ Godwin, M. Discography of Warne Marion Marsh accessed May 12, 2017
  3. ^ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Warne Marsh accessed May 12, 2017
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Burke, Brandon. Jazz of Two Cities – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 953. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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