Earlier this week, I posted on Art Pepper's Gettin' Together, featuring the glorious piano of Wynton Kelly. For this week's Backgrounder, I figured I'd give you another round of Kelly by posting one of my favorites: Kelly at Midnite, recorded for Vee-Jay Records in 1960.
We can thank producer Sid McCoy for mixing each member of the trio so they'd stand out as sonic equals. This lets you listen and focus on each individual player at any given moment thanks to the audio quality—Wynton Kelly's piano, Paul Chambers's bass and Philly Joe Jones's drums.
Being able to hear each musician loud and clear lets you appreciate how remarkable they were while soloing and interacting with each other. Kelly was one of jazz's most elegant players, Chambers was a swinger and Jones was provocative and impossibly clever.
Here's Kelly at Midnite, without ad interruptions...
We can thank producer Sid McCoy for mixing each member of the trio so they'd stand out as sonic equals. This lets you listen and focus on each individual player at any given moment thanks to the audio quality—Wynton Kelly's piano, Paul Chambers's bass and Philly Joe Jones's drums.
Being able to hear each musician loud and clear lets you appreciate how remarkable they were while soloing and interacting with each other. Kelly was one of jazz's most elegant players, Chambers was a swinger and Jones was provocative and impossibly clever.
Here's Kelly at Midnite, without ad interruptions...
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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