Al Cohn Quintet - Progressive Al Cohn

Here's Al Cohn wailing as you never heard him wail before. He leads the quintet in his arrangements of four new originals.

On trumpet Nick Travis, now a star in the Sauter-Finegan band, takes some amazing solos.

The rhythm section is star studded with Max Roach, today’s top drummer, Horace Silver, a flashing new pianist, and Curly Russell, a solid rock on bass.

This is Al Cohn, ‘Mr. Music’, as you like him. *Gus Grant (liner notes)*

Backed by some of the top bop players of the day, Al Cohn stretches out here for a program heavy with up-tempo swingers. Cut in 1953, Progressive Al Cohn finds the usually more mellow tenor great feeding off the driving drum work of Max Roach. The four-track set is all Cohn originals done in a Lester Young-on-the-West Coast style. Also featuring the talents of pianist Horace Silver, this early Cohn release is at once hot and cool, vigorous and lithe. *Stephen Cook*

Side 1

1 - That's What You Think

2 - Ah-Moore

Side 2

3 - I'm Tellin' Ya

4 - Jane Street

(All compositions by Al Cohn)

 Al Cohn (tenor sax), Nick Travis (trumpet), Horace Silver (piano), Curley Russell (bass), Max Roach (drums).

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, June 23, 1953.