Walt Dickerson Quartet ‎– The Complete New Jazz Recordings

• 4 LPS ON 2 CDS SET

• LONG UNAVAILABLE – LIMITED EDITION

• INCLUDES 24-PAGE BOOKLET

This edition contains all of the recordings made by the brilliant Walt Dickerson Quartet for the New Jazz label. Originally released on four LPs, this material also marks Dickerson’s earliest existing studio recordings:

• – THIS IS WALT DICKERSON! (New Jazz LP8254)
• – A SENSE OF DIRECTION (New Jazz LP8268)
• – RELATIVITY (New Jazz LP8275)
• – TO MY QUEEN (New Jazz LP8282)
• All four LPs are included here in their entireties and are presented in chronological order.

PERSONNEL, LOCATION & DATES

• WALT DICKERSON, vibes on all tracks, plus:

• ON CD ONE [1-6]: THIS IS WALT DICKERSON!
• Austin Crowe – (piano)
• Bob Lewis – (bass)
• Andrew Cyrille – (drums)
• Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, March 7, 1961.

• ON CD ONE [7-14]: A SENSE OF DIRECTION
• Austin Crowe – (piano)
• Eustis Guillemet Jr. – (bass)
• Edgar Bateman – (drums)
• Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, May 5, 1961.

• ON CD TWO [1-7]: RELATIVITY
• Austin Crowe – (piano)
• Ahmed Abdul-Malik – (bass)
• Andrew Cyrille – (drums)
• Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 16, 1962.

• ON CD TWO [8-10]: TO MY QUEEN
• Andrew Hill – (piano)
• George Tucker – (bass)
• Andrew Cyrille – (drums)
• Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, September 21, 1962

TRACKS:

• CD ONE: (79:28 min)
• 01 Time
• 02 Elizabeth
• 03 The Cry
• 04 Death And Taxes
• 05 Evelyn
• 06 Infinite You
• 07 Sense Of Direction
• 08 Ode To Boy
• 09 Togetherness
• 10 What’s New?
• 11 Good Earth
• 12 Why
• 13 You Go To My Head
• 14 If I Should Lose You

• CD TWO: (67:30 min)
• 01 Relativity
• 02 It Ain’t Necessarily So
• 03 I Can’t Get Started
• 04 Steppin’ Out
• 05 The Unknown
• 06 Sugar Lump
• 07 Autumn In New York
• 08 To My Queen
• 09 How Deep Is The Ocean?
• 10 God Bless The Child