On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette album)

On the Sunny Side
On the Sunny Side
Studio album by Paul Quinichette
Released	1957
Recorded	May 10, 1957
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	52:00 CD reissue with bonus track
Label	Prestige; PR 7103
Producer	Bob Weinstock
Paul Quinichette chronology

On the Sunny Side is an album by American jazz tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette featuring tracks recorded in May 1957 and released on the Prestige label.^[1]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow calling it, "An enjoyable and underrated release".^[2]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Mal Waldron except as indicated

"Blue Dots" - 7:54
"Circles" - 11:50
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 5:44
"Cool-Lypso" - 19:08
"My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 7:24 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel[edit]

Paul Quinichette - tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller - trombone (tracks 1–4)
Sonny Red (tracks 1–4), John Jenkins (tracks 1 & 3–5) - alto saxophone
Mal Waldron - piano
Doug Watkins - bass
Ed Thigpen - drums

References[edit]

^ Prestige Records discography accessed May 28, 2013
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 28, 2013
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1188. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[1] Prestige Records discography accessed May 28, 2013

[Allmusic-2] Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 28, 2013

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1188. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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v t e Paul Quinichette
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Moods (1954) Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (and John Coltrane, 1957) For Basie (1957) On the Sunny Side (1957) The Chase Is On (with Charlie Rouse, 1957) Basie Reunion (1958) Like Basie! (1959)
With Count Basie	Basie Jazz (1952) Dance Session Album No. 2 (1952) The Count! (1952) The Swinging Count! (1952)
With others	The Big Sound (Gene Ammons, 1958) Groove Blues (Gene Ammons, 1958) Kansas City Revisited (Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) An Evening with Billie Holiday (1952) Lady Sings the Blues (Billie Holiday, 1956) Wheelin' & Dealin' (Prestige All-Stars, 1957) Sarah Vaughan (1955) The Dealers (Mal Waldron, 1964) Blazing Ballads (Dinah Washington, 1951) After Hours with Miss "D" (Dinah Washington, 1953–54) For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)

v t e Sonny Red
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Two Altos (with Art Pepper, 1957) Out of the Blue (1959–60) Breezing (1960) A Story Tale (with Clifford Jordan, 1961) The Mode (1961) Images (1961) Sonny Red (1971)
With Donald Byrd	Mustang (1966) Blackjack (1967) Slow Drag (1967) The Creeper (1967)
With others	Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (1957) Jazz ...It's Magic! (Curtis Fuller, 1957) New Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Saying Something (Bill Hardman, 1961) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962) On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)

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)