Here's Jaki Explained

Here's Jaki
Type:Studio
Artist:Jaki Byard
Cover:Here's Jaki.jpg
Released:1961
Recorded:March 14, 1961
Studio:Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey)
Genre:Jazz
Length:38:58
Label:New Jazz
NJLP 8256
Producer:Esmond Edwards
Chronology:Jaki Byard
Prev Title:Blues for Smoke
Prev Year:1960
Next Title:Hi-Fly
Next Year:1962

Here's Jaki is an album by pianist Jaki Byard recorded in 1961 and released on the New Jazz label.[1]

Music

"Cinco y Quatro" is a calypso in time. "Garnerin' a Bit" is a tribute to pianist Erroll Garner.[2] This album is also notable for having the first recorded cover of John Coltrane's jazz composition Giant Steps.[3] The LP's original liner notes state that the composition "D.D.L.J." was named by combining the initials of the first names of Byard, his wife Louise, and the two children they had at the time, Denise and Diane.

Reception

The AllMusic site awarded the album 3 stars, stating "This is no standard trio; they're a collective who romps through these seven selections with a surprise or more a minute".

Track listing

All compositions by Jaki Byard except as indicated

  1. "Cinco y Quatro" – 6:26
  2. "Mellow Septet" – 5:38
  3. "Garnerin' a Bit" – 5:49
  4. "Giant Steps" (John Coltrane) – 2:22
  5. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now/It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 9:53
  6. "To My Wife" – 5:13
  7. "D.D.L.J." – 3:50

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Prestige Records Catalog: Prestige, New Jazz 8200 series . 2023-09-26 . www.jazzdisco.org.
  2. Yanow, Scott (2003) Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years, p. 610. Backbeat Books.
  3. https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/38164 SecondHandSongs