Wynton Kelly! (2000)

About this title: A key session player and bandmember with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, J.J. Johnson, and Wes Montgomery, to single out just a handful, pianist Wynton Kelly also led several sessions of his own during his short life. This Collectables reissue of a 1961 Vee-Jay release is a fine example of Kelly relaxed and swinging. Working a similar niche to some of the piano trio work of Red Garland and Ahmad Jamal -- two pianists with their own associations with Miles Davis -- Kelly takes a selection of well-known standards and energizes them with tasteful, sophisticated, snappy performances, blending in a ... read more

Tracks:

1. Come Rain or Come Shine [Arlen/Mercer]
2. Make the Man Love Me [Fields/Schwartz]
3. Autumn Leaves [Kosma/Mercer/Prever]
4. The Surrey With the Fringe on Top [Hammerstein/Rodgers]
5. Joe's Avenue [Kelly]
6. Sassy [Kelly]
7. Love, I've Found You [Small]
8. Gone With the Wind [Magidson/Wrubel]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.