Coolin'

Coolin'
Coolin'
Studio album by Teddy Charles
Released	1959
Recorded	April 14, 1957
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:12
Label	New Jazz; NJLP 8216
Producer	Teddy Charles
Teddy Charles chronology

Coolin' is an album by the Prestige All Stars nominally led by vibraphonist Teddy Charles recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Allmusic reviewed the album stating "The group plays five originals by bandmembers that often have complex melodies but familiar chord changes. ...This obscure session is an excellent outing".^[3]

Track listing[edit]

"Staggers" (Mal Waldron) – 7:52
"Song of a Star" (John Jenkins) – 7:11
"The Eagle Flies" (Idrees Sulieman) – 7:38
"Bunni" (Teddy Charles) – 8:02
"Reiteration" (Waldron) – 7:56
"Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 4:33

Personnel[edit]

Teddy Charles – vibraphone
Idrees Sulieman – trumpet
John Jenkins – alto saxophone (tracks 1-5)
Mal Waldron – piano
Addison Farmer – bass
Jerry Segal – drums

Production

Teddy Charles – supervisor
Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

References[edit]

^ Prestige Records discography accessed March 30, 2015
^ Cohan, N., Teddy Charles discography Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 30, 2015
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, March 30, 2015
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[1] Prestige Records discography accessed March 30, 2015

[2] Cohan, N., Teddy Charles discography Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 30, 2015

[Allmusic-3] Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, March 30, 2015

[Penguin-4] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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v t e Teddy Charles
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Collaboration West (1952 & 1953) Evolution (1953 & 1955) The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956) Word from Bird (1956) The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957) Coolin' (1957)
Live albums	Jazz in the Garden at the Museum of Modern Art (1960)

v t e Mal Waldron
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Mal-1 (1956) Mal/2 (1957) The Dealers (1957) Mal/3: Sounds (1958) Just Wailin' (1958) Mal/4: Trio (1958) Left Alone (1959) Impressions (1959) The Quest (1961) Sweet Love, Bitter (1967) Ursula (1969) Free at Last (1969) Tokyo Bound (1970) Tokyo Reverie (1970) Blood and Guts (1970) Spanish Bitch (1970 The Opening (1970) Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970) The Call (1971) First Encounter (1971) Number Nineteen (1971) Black Glory (1971) Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971) Signals (1971) Journey Without End (1971) Blues for Lady Day (1972) A Little Bit of Miles (1972) Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972) A Touch of the Blues (1972) Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972) Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972) The Whirling Dervish (1972) Meditations (1972) Up Popped the Devil (1973) Hard Talk (1974) Moods (1977) Mingus Lives (1979) Mal 81 (1981) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981) What It Is (1981) One Entrance, Many Exits (1982) In Retrospect (1982) Breaking New Ground (1983) Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983) You and the Night and the Music (1983) Encounters (1984) Dedication (1985) Sempre Amore (1986) Left Alone '86 (1986) Update (1986) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986) Our Colline's a Treasure (1987) Remembering the Moment (1987) The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987) Mal, Dance and Soul (1987) Evidence (1988) Art of the Duo (1988) No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988) Crowd Scene (1989) Where Are You? (1989) Quadrologue at Utopia (1989) More Git' Go at Utopia (1989) Spring in Prague (1990) Hot House (1990) I Remember Thelonious (1992) My Dear Family (1993) Waldron-Haslam (1994) After Hours (1994) Communiqué (1994) Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994) Two New (1995) Silence (with David Murray, 2001)
With Gene Ammons	Jammin' with Gene (1956) Funky (1957) Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957) The Big Sound (1958) Groove Blues (1958) Velvet Soul (1962) Angel Eyes (1962) Sock! (1962)
With Jackie McLean	4, 5 and 6 (1956) Jackie's Pal (1956) Jackie McLean & Co. (1957) Makin' the Changes (1957) A Long Drink of the Blues (1957) Strange Blues (1957) McLean's Scene (1957)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Composers Workshop (1954) Mingus at the Bohemia (1955) The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955) Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) Blues & Roots (1959)
With the Prestige All Stars	Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957) Four Altos (1957) Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957) The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957) Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)
With others	All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956) Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957) 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957) Where? (Ron Carter, 1961) The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956) Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957) Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957) Coltrane (1957) Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957) At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961) Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957) Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960) Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957) Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958) So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961) After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957) Olio (Thad Jones, 1957) Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958) Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961) Teo (Teo Macero, 1957) On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957) Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961) It's Time (Max Roach, 1962) Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962) For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)