The Australian Jazz Quartet

by Australian Jazz Quartet

The Australian Jazz Quartet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1956
  • Label: Bethlehem
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 38:42
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Integrating unconventional instrumentation like bassoons and flutes, 'The Australian Jazz Quartet' brings a unique chamber-music texture to the bop vocabulary. The group's distinct tonal palette helped establish them as popular international curiosities on the American club circuit.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, improvisation, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. A Foggy Day (2:37)
  2. Broadway (3:12)
  3. Little Girl Blue (3:24)
  4. September Song (4:05)
  5. Loose Walk (3:04)
  6. The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (2:01)
  7. You Are Too Beautiful (2:57)
  8. Music for Walkin' (2:51)
  9. Lullaby of the Leaves (4:47)
  10. Like Someone in Love (2:49)
  11. The Things We Did Last Summer (3:07)
  12. Fascinating Rhythm (3:43)

Credits

  • The Australian Jazz Quartet - primary artist
  • Dick Healey - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet, piccolo flute, bass, clarinet instrument, flute instrument, alto saxophone instrument, bass instrument
  • Burt Goldblatt - cover, task artwork
  • Jack Brokensha - drums, vibraphone, membranophone instrument, vibraphone instrument
  • Bryce Rohde - piano, piano instrument
  • Errol Buddle - tenor saxophone, bassoon, bassoon instrument, tenor saxophone instrument
  • John Fawcett - bass guest instrument, bass instrument
  • James Gannon - bass instrument
  • Nick Stabulas - guest membranophone instrument

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