Al Haig Trio (Esoteric) Explained

Al Haig Trio
Type:	studio
Artist:	Al Haig
Cover:	Al Haig Trio.jpg
Recorded:	March 13, 1954
Genre:	Bebop
Label:	Esoteric Rerelease: Fresh Sound

Al Haig Trio is a 1954 jazz album released by Al Haig on the Esoteric records label; in later rereleases it is therefore often known as Esoteric or The Al Haig Trio Esoteric.

Background

The album is notable as being one of three that Haig released as leader in 1954, the final year of his first period of success. There followed some twenty years of obscurity, broken in the later 1970s, when he was finally recognised as an important pioneer of bebop, and began to be recorded again.

This album contains thirteen sides, and was awarded a crown in Cook and Morton's The Penguin Guide to Jazz.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Autumn in New York" (5:17)
2. "Isn't It Romantic?" (3:38)
3. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (2:52)
4. "Royal Garden Blues" (2:44)
5. "Don't Blame Me" (2:46)
6. "Moonlight in Vermont" (3:43)
7. "If I Should Lose You" (3:34)
8. "April in Paris" (2:15)
9. "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" (2:20)
10. "Body and Soul" (4:55)
11. "Gone with the Wind" (2:59)
12. "My Old Flame" (2:58)
13. "On the Alamo" (3:34)

Personnel

• Al Haig – piano
• Bill Crow – double bass
• Lee Abrams – drums

Notes and References

1. Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD sixth edition. London: Penguin Books, 2002.