In Orbit | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Clark Terry |
Cover: | In Orbit (Clark Terry album).jpeg |
Released: | 1958 |
Recorded: | May 7 & 12, 1958 |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 47:51 (Reissue) |
Label: | Riverside |
Producer: | Orrin Keepnews |
Prev Title: | Duke with a Difference |
Prev Year: | 1957 |
Next Title: | Top and Bottom Brass |
Next Year: | 1959 |
In Orbit is an album by jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, also featuring Thelonious Monk, which was recorded in New York on May 7 & 12, 1958.[1]
It was Monk's only Riverside appearance as sideman, the first of Terry's recordings on flugelhorn, and the first Riverside date with bassist Sam Jones.[2]
Monk introduced Riverside to some its most important artists, including Johnny Griffin, Wilbur Ware, Sonny Rollins, and Terry.[3]
It features one Monk composition, "Let's Cool One"[4]