| Top Brass | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Ernie Wilkins |
| Cover: | Top Brass.jpg |
| Released: | 1956 |
| Recorded: | November 8, 1955 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 37:52 |
| Label: | Savoy MG 12044 |
| Producer: | Ozzie Cadena |
| Chronology: | Ernie Wilkins |
| Prev Title: | Flutes & Reeds |
| Prev Year: | 1955 |
| Next Title: | The Drum Suite |
| Next Year: | 1956 |
Top Brass (subtitled Featuring 5 Trumpets) is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Ernie Wilkins featuring performances recorded in 1955 and first released on the Savoy label.[1] [2] The album consists of five original selections with trumpeters Ray Copeland, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal and Joe Wilder followed by five standards featuring each individually.
The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars stating "If there's any complaint about this studio date at all, it is the excess reverb used at times, which is surprising due to Rudy Van Gelder's usually impeccable sound".
All compositions by Ernie Wilkins, except where indicated.