Asia Minor (album)
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| Asia Minor | ||||
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| Released | 1962 | |||
| Recorded | March 13, 1962 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 36:25 | |||
| Label | New Jazz | |||
| Dizzy Reece chronology | ||||
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Asia Minor is an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the New Jazz label.[1]
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| Source | Rating |
| Down Beat |   [2] |
| Allmusic |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Contemporaneous reviews of Asia Minor were positive, with the Jazz Journal describing it as "modern jazz at a high level".[5] Critical reflections of the album since its release have often concluded that it was Reece's finest session of the period[6] and a "masterpiece".[7] A review by Scott Yanow for AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "The solos tend to be concise but quite meaningful, and, overall, this hard bop but occasionally surprising session is quite memorable".[3]
