The All American Trio

1984 studio album by Cedar Walton, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette
The All American Trio
Studio album by
Cedar Walton, Ron Carter and Jack DeJohnette
Released1984
RecordedDecember 22 & 23, 1983
Vanguard Studios, NYC
GenreJazz
LabelBaystate
RJL-8085
ProducerBenny Golson, Fumimaru Kawashima and Makoto Kimata
Cedar Walton chronology
Eastern Rebellion 4
(1983) 		The All American Trio
(1984) 		Cedar's Blues
(1985)

The All American Trio (also released as Cedar Walton/Ron Carter/Jack DeJohnette) is an album by pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter and Drummer Jack DeJohnette recorded in 1983 and first released on the Japanese Baystate label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz highlighted DeJohnette's musical progress since his 1968 recordings with Walton, and commented that "all three players are intuitively musical in approach".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Cedar Walton except as indicated

  1. "Iron Clad" – 5:52
  2. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 6:37
  3. "Blue Heart" (Benny Golson) – 5:05
  4. "Ebony" (Jack DeJohnette) – 5:21
  5. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:09
  6. "A Slight Smile" (Ron Carter) – 5:07
  7. "The Rubber Man" – 6:24
  8. "B and A" (Carter) – 4:44

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Cedar Walton discography accessed February 16, 2015
  2. ^ a b AllMusic listing, accessed February 16, 2015
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. p. 1118. ISBN 978-0-14-015364-4.
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