Riverside RLP-1142

The Jamaican pianist Wynton Kelly recorded his first album for Blue Note at the age of 19. He worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus and Wes Montgomery. Due to his extremely precise, gentle and yet always bluesy game, he was highly esteemed among fellow musicians. Kelly's connection between blues and bebop was stylistic, found accordingly many imitators and stylistically preceded the later Hardbop.

This was also noticed by Miles Davis, who met Kelly in the late 1950s and in 1959 engaged for four years. In the same year Kelly also played on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and took his third album as a leader - "Kelly Blue" - together with Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, so Davis' rhythm section, as well as two pieces by Nat Adderley, Bobby Jaspar and Benny Golson added to the sextet

Wynton Kelly, piano
Paul Chambers, bass
Jimmy Cobb, drums
Nat Adderley, cornet 
Bobby Jaspar, fute 
Benny Golson, tenor sax