Snap Your Fingers (album)

Snap Your Fingers is an album by trombonist Al Grey released in 1962 on Argo Records featuring studio and live recordings.[1][2][3][4][5]

Snap Your Fingers
Studio album / Live album by
Al Grey featuring Billy Mitchell
Released1962
RecordedJanuary 31 and February 19, 1962
VenueBirdland, NYC
StudioTer-Mar Studios, Chicago, IL
GenreJazz
Length41:28
LabelArgo
LP-700
ProducerRalph Bass
Al Grey chronology
The Al Grey - Billy Mitchell Sextet
(1961)		 Snap Your Fingers
(1962)		 Night Song
(1962)
Billy Mitchell chronology
The Al Grey - Billy Mitchell Sextet
(1961)		 Snap Your Fingers
(1962)		 This Is Billy Mitchell
(1962)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[7]

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated "Trombonist Al Grey is joined by emerging young tenor saxophonist Billy Mitchell on this pair of 1962 sessions ... There's not a bad track on this".[6]

Track listing
  1. "Nothing But the Truth" (Billy Bowen) – 3:20
  2. "Three-Fourth Blues" (Gene Kee) – 5:23
  3. "Just Waiting" (Melba Liston) – 2:57
  4. "R. B. Q." (Kee) – 4:58
  5. "Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 4:19
  6. "Minor on Top" (Thad Jones) – 6:50
  7. "African Lady" (Randy Weston) – 4:29
  8. "Hi-Fly" (Weston) – 9:22
  • Recorded at Birdland, NYC on January 31, 1962 (tracks 6–8) and Ter-Mar Studios, Chicago, IL on February 19, 1962 (tracks 1–5)

Personnel

References
  1. Edwards, D. and Callahan, M. Argo Album Discography, Part 1: Jazz Series (1956–1965) accessed April 24, 2017
  2. Fitzgerald, M. Argo/Cadet Records Listing accessed April 24, 2017
  3. Jazzlists: Argo/Cadet discography (LP 701 to LP 799) accessed April 24, 2017
  4. Mortensen, S. The Complete Bobby Hutcherson Discography accessed April 24, 2017
  5. Bobby Hutcherson Discography – as a sideman: Snap Your Fingers accessed April 24, 2017
  6. Dryden, Ken. ''Snap Your Fingers – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  7. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 605. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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