Cookin'
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedAugust 6, 1957
Sheldon Recording Studios, Chicago
GenreJazz
LabelArgo Records
ProducerLeonard Chess
Paul Gonsalves chronology
Cookin'
(1957)
Diminuendo, Crescendo and Blues
(1958)

Cookin' is an album by Paul Gonsalves, released in 1957 by Argo Records.[1][2] The album was re-released on CD in 2008 with bonus tracks from Clark Terry's Out on a Limb with Clark Terry (Argo, 1957) and The Jazz School (EmArcy, 1956) by Fresh Sound.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

AllMusic awarded the album 412 stars.[3] The authors of Penguin Guide, reviewing a GRP Clark Terry compilation (Daybreak Express, also containing the Clark Terry album, 4 stars), wrote that the tracks with Gonsalves "are far and away the most interesting things on the record".[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Gonsalves, except as indicated

  1. "Festival" - 6:54
  2. "Clark's Bars" (Clark Terry) - 3:38
  3. "Daddy-O's Patio" (Terry) - 2:16
  4. "Blues" - 5:01
  5. "Impeccable" - 4:20
  6. "Paul's Idea" - 2:48
  7. "Phat Bach" (Terry) - 3:18
  8. "Milli Terry" (Terry) - 2:34
  9. "Funky" (Terry) - 4:04

Personnel

References

  1. Corbett, John (May 18, 2017). Vinyl Freak: Love Letters to a Dying Medium. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822373155 via Google Books.
  2. Argo Records discography accessed September 18, 2012
  3. 1 2 3 Dryden, Ken. "Cookin'". AllMusic. Retrieved September 18, 2012.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 570. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Cook & Morton 2008, p. 1391


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