Up & Down (album)
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Up & Down is the fourth album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots....

 featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Blue Note
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "it finds Parlan at a peak, and in many ways, coming into his own as a pianist and a leader".

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Parlan except as indicated
  1. "The Book's Beat" (Booker Ervin
    Booker Ervin
    Booker Telleferro Ervin II was an American tenor saxophone player. He was perhaps best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus....

    ) - 9:50
  2. "Up and Down" - 6:11
  3. "Fugee" (George Tucker
    George Tucker (musician)
    George Andrew Tucker was an American jazz double-bassist.Tucker attended the New York Conservatory of Modern Music, studying bass in the late 1940s. Early in his career he played with Earl Bostic, John Coltrane, and Jackie McLean...

    ) - 7:04
  4. "The Other Part of Town" (Grant Green
    Grant Green
    Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....

    ) - 11:41
  5. "Lonely One" (Babs Gonzales
    Babs Gonzales
    Babs Gonzales , born Lee Brown, was an American jazz vocalist of the bebop era most notable for penning the song "Oop-Pop-A-Da", which was originally recorded and performed by his own band and was later made famous by Dizzy Gillespie . Babs was also once the chauffeur for Errol Flynn...

    ) - 4:06
  6. "Light Blue" (Tommy Turrentine
    Tommy Turrentine
    Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. was a swing and hard bop trumpeter of the 1940s to 1960s, the older brother of saxophonist Stanley Turrentine.-Biography:...

    ) - 6:04
  7. "Fugee" [alternate take] (Tucker) - 7:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
    • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on June 18, 1961

Personnel

  • Horace Parlan
    Horace Parlan
    Horace Parlan is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots....

     - piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

  • Booker Ervin
    Booker Ervin
    Booker Telleferro Ervin II was an American tenor saxophone player. He was perhaps best known for his association with bassist Charles Mingus....

     - tenor saxophone
    Tenor saxophone
    The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

  • Grant Green
    Grant Green
    Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer....

     - guitar
    Guitar
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  • George Tucker
    George Tucker (musician)
    George Andrew Tucker was an American jazz double-bassist.Tucker attended the New York Conservatory of Modern Music, studying bass in the late 1940s. Early in his career he played with Earl Bostic, John Coltrane, and Jackie McLean...

     - bass
    Double bass
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  • Al Harewood
    Al Harewood
    Al Harewood is a musician and teacher, born in Brooklyn. As a drummer Harewood worked with many jazz musicians including the J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding group, the Art Farmer/Gigi Grice band, David Amram, and the Curtis Fuller-Benny Golson Sextet...

     - drums
    Drum kit
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