Jazz of Two Cities
1957 studio album by Warne Marsh
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Jazz of Two Cities, is an album by saxophonist Warne Marsh, recorded in 1956 and released on the Imperial label.[1][2][3] The album was later released in stereo as The Winds of Marsh which featured different takes of four of the numbers.
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | October 3 & 11, 1956 | |||
| Studio | Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Imperial LP 9027 | |||
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Reception
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| AllMusic |   [4] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [5] |
The AllMusic review noted, "This is some very fine music by a band with an exceptionally rich collective imagination. It is clear that, in the hands of this combo, every theme is treated like a question with an absolutely limitless amount of harmonic and melodic answers".[4]
Track listing
- "Smog Eyes" (Ted Brown) – 3:30
- "Ear Conditioning" (Ronnie Ball) – 5:13
- "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) – 4:27
- "Quintessence" (Ball) – 2:13
- "Jazz of Two Cities" (Brown) – 4:38
- "Dixie's Dilemma" (Warne Marsh) – 4:20
- "Tschaikovsky's Opus #42, Mt. 3" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) – 3:59
- "I Never Knew" (Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn) – 5:10
Personnel
- Warne Marsh, Ted Brown – tenor saxophone
- Ronnie Ball – piano
- Ben Tucker – bass
- Jeff Morton – drums