Paul Chambers Quartet – Bass On Top LP

When jazz bass virtuoso Paul Chambers recorded Bass On Top, his third and final album as a leader for Blue Note, he was only 22 years old but already well established as one of the top bassists in jazz. This brilliantly seductive album features stalwarts Hank Jones on piano, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Art Taylor on drums. Highlights include the chamber-jazz interpretation of Jerome Kern’s “Yesterdays” and a lightly swinging version of “Dear Old Stockholm,” a tune often associated with Miles Davis who was Chambers’ employer at the time.

Blue Note Tone Poet Series.

A1 Yesterdays

A2 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

A3 Chasin' The Bird

B1 Dear Old Stockholm

B2 The Theme

B3 Confessin'