''Three Trumpets'' is an album by the Prestige All Stars nominally led by trumpeters Art Farmer, Donald Byrd and

Idrees Sulieman Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002) was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter. Biography He was born Leonard Graham in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, later changing his name to Idrees Sulieman, after converting to Is ...

, recorded in 1957 and released on the New Jazz label.Prestige Records discography
accessed March 30, 2015

Reception

Scott Yanow of

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reviewed the album, stating: "Three of the up-and-coming hard bop trumpeters of the 1950s are matched up on this jam session-flavored set. ...Although none of the songs caught on there are some fireworks during these performances".Yanow, S.
AllMusic Review
March 30, 2015

Track listing

# "Palm Court Alley" (Idrees Sulieman) – 7:48 # "Who's Who?" (Art Farmer) – 6:29 # "Diffusion of Beauty" (Hod O'Brien) – 7:01 # "Forty Quarters" (Sulieman) – 4:34 # "You Gotta Dig It to Dig It" (Donald Byrd) – 13:30

Personnel

* Art Farmer, Donald Byrd,

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trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

Hod O'Brien Walter Howard "Hod" O'Brien (January 19, 1936 – November 20, 2016) was an American jazz pianist. O'Brien was born in Chicago. He attended the Hotchkiss School and then studied at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Manhattan School of Music (1954� ...

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

* Addison Farmer – bass *

Ed Thigpen Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965. Thigpen also performed with the Billy Taylor trio from 1956 to 1959. Biograp ...

– drums *Teddy Charles – supervisor *

Rudy Van Gelder Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Theloni ...

– engineer

References

{{Authority control Art Farmer albums Donald Byrd albums Idrees Sulieman albums 1957 albums Prestige Records albums Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio