The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer is an album by saxophonist, composer and arranger Al Cohn's Quintet with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer recorded in late 1956 for the Coral label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden stated "Cohn and Brookmeyer inspire one another throughout the sessions".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated

"The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:25
"Good Spirits" (Bob Brookmeyer) - 3:37
"A Blues Serenade" (Frank Signorelli, Vincent Grande, Jimmy Lytell) - 4:23
"Lazy Man Stomp" (Brookmeyer) - 2:56
"Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:50
"Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp)" (Neil Moret, Gus Kahn) - 3:38
"S-H-I-N-E" (Cecil Mack, Lew Brown, Ford Dabney) - 3:45
"Back to Back" - 2:37
"So Far So Good" - 3:50
"Winter" - 3:54
"I Should Care" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) - 2:41
"Bunny Hunch" (Brookmeyer) - 2:39

Personnel

References

^ Edwards, D., Eyries, P., Watts, R, Neely, T. & Callahan, M., Coral Album Discography, accessed November 30, 2015
^ ^a ^b Dryden, Ken. The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bob Brookmeyer – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

Bob Brookmeyer

Albums

Bob Brookmeyer Quartet (1954)
Bob Brookmeyer Plays Bob Brookmeyer and Some Others (1955)
The Dual Role of Bob Brookmeyer (1954–55)
Brookmeyer (1956)
Jimmy Raney featuring Bob Brookmeyer (1956)
Tonite's Music Today (and Zoot Sims, 1956)
Whooeeee (and Zoot Sims, 1956)
The Street Swingers (and Jim Hall, Jimmy Raney, 1957)
Traditionalism Revisited (1957)
Kansas City Revisited (1958)
Stretching Out (1958)
Portrait of the Artist (1959)
The Ivory Hunters (and Bill Evans, 1959)
Jazz Is a Kick (1960)
The Blues Hot and Cold (1960)
7 x Wilder (1961)
Trombone Jazz Samba (1962)
Samba Para Dos (and Lalo Schifrin, 1963)
Back Again (1978)
New Works Celebration (New Art Orchestra, 1997)
Island (2002)

Co-led
and with Clark
Terry

Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments (Brookmeyer, 1961)
Tonight (1964)
The Power of Positive Swinging (1965)
Gingerbread Men (1966)
Tijuana Jazz (Gary McFarland and Clark Terry, 1965)

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	Al Cohn's Tones (1950 & 1953) Mr. Music (1954) The Natural Seven (1955) That Old Feeling (1955) Four Brass One Tenor (1955) The Brothers! (with Bill Perkins and Richie Kamuca, 1955) From A to...Z (with Zoot Sims, 1956) The Sax Section (1956) Cohn on the Saxophone (1956) Tenor Conclave (with John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, and Zoot Sims, 1956) The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer (1956) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (with Herbie Steward, Zoot Sims, and Serge Chaloff, 1957) Al and Zoot (with Zoot Sims, 1957) You 'n' Me (with Zoot Sims, 1960) Son of Drum Suite (1960) Either Way (with Zoot Sims, 1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (1962) Body and Soul (with Zoot Sims, 1973) Motoring Along (with Zoot Sims, 1974) Play It Now (1975) True Blue (with Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Dexter Gordon, 1976) Al Cohn's America (1976) Heavy Love (with Jimmy Rowles, 1977) No Problem (1979)
Live albums	Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (with Zoot Sims and Phil Woods, 1959) Xanadu in Africa (with Dolo Coker, Leroy Vinnegar, and Frank Butler, 1980) Night Flight to Dakar (with Billy Mitchell, Dolo Coker, Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Butler, 1980)