Artist: Donald Byrd & Gigi Gryce
Album: The Complete Jazz Lab Sessions
Genre: Hard Bop
Label: Jazz Dynamics
Released: 2013
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Nica's Tempo (5:29)
- Smoke Signal (3:28)
- Speculation (3:40)
- Over the Rainbow (8:18)
- Sans Souci (7:14)
- I Remember Clifford (4:54)
- Little Niles (7:00)
- Blue Concept (5:00)
- Love for Sale (8:03)
- Geraldine (5:38)
- Minority (6:29)
- Zing Went the Strings of My Heart (6:06)
- CD 2:
- Straight Ahead (9:33)
- Wake Up! (4:36)
- Exhibit A (8:35)
- Ergo the Blues (take 2) (7:42)
- Ergo the Blues (take 3) (6:24)
- Capri (4:57)
- Splittin' (aka Ray's Way) (5:18)
- Passade (6:26)
- Byrd in Hand (9:41)
- Blue Lights (4:01)
- Onion Head (4:41)
- Isn't It Romantic? (4:47)
- CD 3:
- Batland (7:03)
- Bangoon (4:59)
- Imagination (5:40)
- X-Tacy (8:27)
- Satellite (4:27)
- An Evening in Casablanca (5:02)
- Social Call (4:40)
- Stablemates (4:56)
- Steppin' Out (5:28)
- Medley: Early Morning Blues/Now, Don't You Know (3:42)
- Early Bird (7:36)
- Elgy (6:25)
- Oh Yeah! (4:29)
- CD 4:
- Splittin' (aka Ray's Way) (Live) (8:31)
- Batland (Live) (7:22)
- Love for Sale (Live) (7:37)
- Kamman's A'Comin' (4:12)
- Minor 7th Heaven (4:12)
- Stardust (3:33)
- Bohemia After Dark (5:36)
- Oscalypso (2:26)
- Scorpio (3:47)
- Titoro (3:23)
- Don't Squawk (4:19)
- Another One (5:11)
- Sometimes I'm Happy (5:55)
- Embraceable You (7:31)
- Jordu (4:55)
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This four-disc collection contains all of the recordings of one of the most interesting jazz groups from the late ‘50s, the Jazz Lab, compiled here for the first time ever on one release. Co-led by Gigi Gryce and Donald Byrd, this set comprises the group’s five original studio albums (including all existing supplementary tunes and alternate takes from the sessions), presented here in their entirety and in chronological order. This edition also includes the Jazz Lab’s only known live performance, taped at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957. As a bonus, a complete Oscar Pettiford LP, which constitutes the only other small group collaboration of Gryce and Byrd, and is a precursor to the Jazz Lab sound, as well as a rare 1955 Gigi Gryce quartet session (with Pettiford on bass) in its entirety, which despite having no real relation to the later Gryce-Byrd formation, was issued under the title of Jazz Laboratory Series (probably Gryce chose the group’s name based on that previous release!).