George Wallington - Jazz for the Carriage Trade - Vinyl

Besides his importance as one of the first bop pianists, a major jazz composer, and a prototypical trio player (as heard on the George Wallington Trios), for a time pianist George Wallington was also a New York combo leader and talent scout on the order of Art Blakey and Miles Davis. This 1956 session comes from the period when Wallington was musical director at the Cafe Bohemia in Greenwich Village, where the present quintet introduced then-young lions trumpeter Donald Byrd and alto saxophonist Phil Woods to jazz's major leagues.Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray.