Manhattan Project (album)

1978 studio album by Dizzy Reece

Manhattan Project

Studio album by

Dizzy Reece

Released| 1978
Recorded| January 17, 1978
Genre| Jazz
Length| 47:16
Label| Bee Hive
Dizzy Reece chronology
| From In to Out
(1970)  | Manhattan Project
(1978)  | Blowin' Away
(1978)

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Manhattan Project is an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece featuring performances recorded in 1978 and released on the Bee Hive label. In 2015, Mosaic Records included this recording in The Complete Bee Hive Sessions (Mosaic MD12-261), a 12-CD box set.[1]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Hopefully, this highly enjoyable Bee Hive LP will someday be rediscovered and reissued on CD".[2]

## Track listing

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All compositions by Dizzy Reece except as indicated

1. "Con Man" - 8:55
2. "Manhattan Walk" - 7:59
3. "Yule On The Hudson" - 9:05
4. "Woody 'n' You" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 13:20
5. "One For Trane" (Mickey Bass) - 7:57

* Recorded at Blue Rock Studio, N.Y.C. on January 17, 1978.

## Personnel

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* Dizzy Reece \- trumpet
* Clifford Jordan \- tenor saxophone
* Charles Davis \- tenor saxophone
* Albert Dailey \- piano
* Art Davis \- bass
* Roy Haynes \- drums

## References

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1. ^ "Bee Hive". www.mosaicrecords.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 29, 2010
3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 167\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

* v
* t
* e

Dizzy Reece

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader or
co-leader|

* Blues in Trinity (1958)
* Star Bright (1959)
* Comin' On! (1960)
* Soundin' Off (1960)
* Asia Minor (1962)
* From In to Out (1970)
* Blowin' Away (with Ted Curson, 1978)
* Manhattan Project (1978)

With
others|

* Suite Sixteen (Victor Feldman, 1955)
* The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968)
* A Day in Copenhagen (Dexter Gordon, 1969)
* Passing Ships (Andrew Hill, 1969)
* Round Midnight (Philly Joe Jones, 1969)
* Inward Fire (Clifford Jordan, 1977)
* Play What You Feel (Clifford Jordan, 1990)
* Down Through the Years (Clifford Jordan, 1991)
* Flight to Jordan (Duke Jordan, 1960)
* The Flip (Hank Mobley, 1969)

* v
* t
* e

Clifford Jordan

Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.

leader or
co-leader|

* Blowing in from Chicago (1957)
* Cliff Jordan (1957)
* Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (1957)
* Cliff Craft (1957)
* Spellbound (1960)
* A Story Tale (1961)
* Starting Time (1961)
* Bearcat (1962)
* These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965)
* Soul Fountain (1966)
* In the World (1969)
* Glass Bead Games (1973)
* Half Note (1974)
* Drink Plenty Water (1974)
* Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975)
* On Stage Vol. 1 (1975)
* On Stage Vol. 2 (1975)
* On Stage Vol. 3 (1975)
* Firm Roots (1975)
* The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)
* Remembering Me-Me (1976)
* Inward Fire (1977)
* The Adventurer (1978)
* Hello, Hank Jones (1978)
* Hyde Park After Dark (1981)
* Repetition (1984)
* Dr. Chicago (1984)
* Two Tenor Winner (1984)
* The Rotterdam Session (1985)
* Royal Ballads (1986)
* Live at Ethell's (1987)
* Masters from Different Worlds (1989)
* Four Play (1990)
* The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (1989–91)
* Play What You Feel (1990)
* Down Through the Years (1991)

With
Art
Farmer|

* Mirage (1982)
* You Make Me Smile (1984)
* Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987)
* Blame It on My Youth (1988)
* Ph.D. (1989)

With
Charles
Mingus|

* Cornell 1964 (March 1964)
* Town Hall Concert (April 1964)
* Astral Weeks (April 1964)
* Mingus in Europe Volume I (April 1964)
* Mingus in Europe Volume II (April 1964)
* Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (June 1964)

With
Lee
Morgan|

* Here's Lee Morgan (1960)
* Expoobident (1960)
* Take Twelve (1962)

With
Max
Roach|

* Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
* It's Time (1962)
* Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)

With
Cedar
Walton|

* Spectrum (1968)
* The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969)
* A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1 (1973)
* A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973)
* The Pentagon (1976)

With
others|

* Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
* Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957)
* Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Richard Davis, 1972)
* Dealin' (Richard Davis, 1973)
* Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
* Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
* To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992)
* Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)
* Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood, 1985)
* Shades (Andrew Hill, 1986)
* J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1961)
* Con Alma! (Charles McPherson, 1965)
* Any Old Time (Carmen McRae, 1986)
* Carmen Sings Monk (Carmen McRae, 1988)
* Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
* Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
* Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
* Manhattan Project (Dizzy Reece, 1976)
* The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Sahib Shihab, 1957)
* Further Explorations (Horace Silver, 1958)
* Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970)
* What It Is (Mal Waldron, 1981)
* Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1967)

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