''Last Chorus'' is a posthumous album by American jazz saxophonist Ernie Henry featuring tracks recorded in 1956 and 1957 for the

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Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with

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stating "Overall, the music is fine and, surprisingly, does not have an unfinished air about it. It does make one wish that Ernie Henry had taken better care of his health, as he was just beginning to develop a sound of his own".Yanow, S
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Track listing

# " Autumn Leaves" ( Joseph Kosma,

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, Jacques Prévert) - 3:15 # "Beauty and the Blues" (

Benny Golson Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launch ...

) - 6:28 # "

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, Jerome Kern) - 7:49 # "Melba's Tune" ( Melba Liston) - 2:41 # "S'posin'" lternate take(Paul Denniker,

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) - 4:54 - from 2 Horns/2 Rhythm # "Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are" xcerpt( Thelonious Monk) - 6:58 - from Monk's Brilliant Corners album # " Like Someone in Love" lternate take(Johnny Burke (lyricist), Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 4:40 - from Seven Standards and a Blues # "Cleo's Chant" lternate take(Ernie Henry) - 8:31 - from Presenting Ernie Henry *Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on August 30, 1956 (track 8), October 9, 1956 (track 6), September 15, 1957 (tracks 1-4), September 30, 1957 (track 7) and November 13, 1957 (track 5) *The Fresh Sound CD The Last Sessions adds the octet track Stablemates to the 3 octet and 1 quintet tracks and combines them with the complete Seven Standards and a Blues album.

Personnel

* Ernie Henry - alto saxophone *Lee Morgan (tracks 1-4) - Kenny Dorham (Tracks 5 & 8) trumpet * Melba Liston - trombone (tracks 1, 2 & 4) *

(tracks 1, 2 & 4), Sonny Rollins mostly ensemble (track 6) - tenor saxophone *Cecil Payne - baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 2 & 4) *Kenny Drew (track 8), Wynton Kelly (tracks 1-4 & 7), Thelonious Monk (track 6) - piano *Paul Chambers (tracks 1-4), Eddie Mathias (track 5), Oscar Pettiford (track 6), Wilbur Ware (tracks 7 & 8) - Double bass, bass *G. T. Hogan (track 5), Philly Joe Jones (tracks 1-4 & 7), Max Roach (track 6), Art Taylor (track 8) - drum kit, drums

References

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