Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio explained

Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Randy Weston
Cover:	Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio.jpg
Released:	Early February 1956^[1]
Recorded:	August 29 & 31, 1955
Studio:	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Riverside RLP 12-203
Producer:	Orrin Keepnews, Bill Grauer
Chronology:	Randy Weston
Prev Title:	The Randy Weston Trio
Prev Year:	1955
Next Title:	With These Hands...
Next Year:	1956

Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio is a jazz album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1955 and released on the Riverside label.^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Jim Todd stated: "This early release from Randy Weston finds the pianist still in his formative stages... The set shows Weston's facility with standards, Ellingtonia, even ragtime, but, with several tracks coming in well under four minutes, the performances offer little room for development. The impression here is that of a pianist of great potential limbering up before the curtain rises for the show".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Randy Weston, except as indicated

1. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:42
2. "Fire Down There" (Traditional) - later renamed "St. Thomas" - 2:51
3. "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 4:09
4. "Under Blunder" - 3:06
5. "Dark Eyes" (Florian Hermann) - 3:34
6. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:56
7. "Bass Knows" - 5:15
8. "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) - 2:49
9. "A Ballad" (Sam Gill) - 4:20
10. "Twelfth Street Rag" (Euday L. Bowman) - 2:59

Personnel

• • • Randy Weston - piano Sam Gill - bass Wilbert Hogan - drums

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=4B4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Get+Happy+Randy+Weston+Trio+203&pg=PA24 Billboard Feb 16, 1956
2. http://www.jazzdisco.org/riverside-records/catalog-200-series/#rlp-12-203 Riverside Records discography
3. Todd, J. Allmusic Review, accessed August 9, 2012.