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You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce!

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You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce!
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedOctober 8 & 15, 1956, April 27, May 13 and September 3, 1957
Contemporary Studios in Los Angeles, California
GenreJazz
Length44:39
LabelContemporary C3539/S7539
ProducerLester Koenig
Curtis Counce chronology
The Curtis Counce Group
(1956)
You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce!
(1957)
Carl's Blues
(1957-58)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings [3]

You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce! (later released as Councelation) is an album by American jazz bassist Curtis Counce recorded in 1956 and 1957 and released on the Contemporary label.[4]

Reception

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states

this was a band with plenty of solo strength. Their second Contemporary recording features five standards and two numbers by the leader. This excellent music falls somewhere between hard bop and cool jazz.[1]

Track listing

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All compositions by Curtis Counce except as indicated

  1. "Complete" - 5:51
  2. "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Irving Berlin) - 6:35
  3. "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) - 5:36
  4. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 4:31
  5. "Stranger in Paradise" (Alexander Borodin, George Forrest, Robert Wright) - 7:03
  6. "Counceltation" - 6:01
  7. "Big Foot" (Charlie Parker) - 9:02
  • Recorded at Contemporary Studios in Los Angeles, CA on October 8, 1956 (track 7), October 15, 1956 (track 5), April 27, 1957 (tracks 3 & 6), May 13, 1957 (tracks 1 & 2) and September 3, 1957 (track 4)

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Councelation – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 52. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Contemporary Records discography accessed May 15, 2015