''Humming Bird'' is an album by jazz saxophonist

Paul Gonsalves Paul Gonsalves ( – ) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue ...

that was released in the U.K. in 1970. The album was recorded in England with English jazz musicians Alan Branscombe, Stan Tracey, and David Horler, and Canadian trumpeter Kenny Wheeler.

Track listing

#"Humming Bird" #" Body and Soul" #"What Is There to Stay" #"It's the Talk of the Town" #"

All The Things You Are "All the Things You Are" is a song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II. The song was written for the musical ''Very Warm for May'' (1939)

" #"Sticks" #"X. O. X" #"

In a Mellow Tone "In a Mellow Tone", also known as "In a Mellotone", is a 1939 jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics written by Milt Gabler. The song was based on the 1917 standard "Rose Room" by Art Hickman and Harry Williams, which Ellington himse ...

" #"Almost You"

Personnel

* Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone *

Kenny Wheeler Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards. Most of his performances were rooted in jazz, but he was also active ...

– trumpet *

David Horler David Ronald Horler (born 10 September 1943) is an English jazz trombonist. He is the older brother of John Horler. Biography Horler was born in Lymington, Hampshire. His father was a professional trumpeter. David studied piano from age five and ...

– trombone *

Alan Branscombe Alan Branscombe (4 June 1936 – 27 October 1986) was an English jazz pianist, vibraphonist, and alto saxophonist. Biography Branscombe was born in Wallasey, Cheshire (now Merseyside), in 1936. His father and grandfather were also professi ...

– piano *

Stan Tracey Stanley William Tracey (30 December 1926 – 6 December 2013) was a British jazz pianist and composer, whose most important influences were Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Tracey's best known recording is the 1965 album ''Jazz Suite Inspir ...

– piano * Dave Green – bass guitar *

Kenny Napper Kenneth Napper (born July 14, 1933 in London) is an English jazz double-bassist. Napper started out on piano as a child and picked up bass as a student at Guildhall School of Music. He entered the British military in the early 1950s, playing with ...

– bass guitar * Benny Goodman – drums

References

1970 albums Paul Gonsalves albums Deram Records albums {{1970s-jazz-album-stub