Teo (album)

1957 studio album by Teo Macero

Teo

Studio album by

Teo Macero

Released| 1957
Recorded| April 27, 1957
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre| Jazz
Length| 36:13
Label| Prestige
PRLP 7104
Producer| Teddy Charles
Teo Macero chronology
| What's New?
(1956)  | Teo
(1957)  | New Music in Quarter-Tones
(1967)

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Teo (also referred to as Teo Macero and the Prestige Jazz Quartet) is an album by saxophonist Teo Macero fronting the Prestige Jazz Quartet, a group nominally led by jazz vibraphonist Teddy Charles, which was recorded in 1957 for the Prestige label.[1][2]

## Reception

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated "The music is advanced but from the jazz tradition, and overall this set is more noteworthy for Macero's interesting playing than for the tunes themselves".[3]

## Track listing

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1. "Ghost Story" (Mal Waldron) - 6:27
2. "Please Don't Go Now" (John Ross) - 6:38
3. "Just Spring" (Teo Macero) - 4:52
4. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 7:09
5. "Polody" (Teddy Charles) - 5:15
6. "What's Not" (Waldron) - 5:52

## Personnel

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* Teo Macero \- tenor saxophone
* Teddy Charles \- vibraphone
* Mal Waldron \- piano
* Addison Farmer \- bass
* Jerry Segal \- drums

## References

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1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed July 29, 2013
2. ^ Cohen, N. Teddy Charles Discography, accessed July 29, 2013
3. ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 29, 2013

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Mal Waldron

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

leader

co-leader|

* Mal-1 (1956)
* Mal/2 (1957)
* The Dealers (1957)
* Mal/3: Sounds (1958)
* Just Wailin' (1958)
* Mal/4: Trio (1958)
* Left Alone (1959)
* Impressions (1959)
* The Quest (1961)
* Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
* Ursula (1969)
* Free at Last (1969)
* Tokyo Bound (1970)
* Tokyo Reverie (1970)
* Blood and Guts (1970)
* Spanish Bitch (1970
* The Opening (1970)
* Mal: Live 4 to 1 (1970)
* The Call (1971)
* First Encounter (1971)
* Number Nineteen (1971)
* Black Glory (1971)
* Mal Waldron Plays the Blues (1971)
* Signals (1971)
* Journey Without End (1971)
* Blues for Lady Day (1972)
* A Little Bit of Miles (1972)
* Jazz a Confronto 19 (1972)
* A Touch of the Blues (1972)
* Mal Waldron on Steinway (1972)
* Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (1972)
* The Whirling Dervish (1972)
* Meditations (1972)
* Up Popped the Devil (1973)
* Hard Talk (1974)
* Moods (1977)
* Mingus Lives (1979)
* Mal 81 (1981)
* Live at Dreher, Paris 1981 (1981)
* What It Is (1981)
* One Entrance, Many Exits (1982)
* In Retrospect (1982)
* Breaking New Ground (1983)
* Mal Waldron Plays Eric Satie (1983)
* You and the Night and the Music (1983)
* Encounters (1984)
* Dedication (1985)
* Sempre Amore (1986)
* Left Alone '86 (1986)
* Update (1986)
* The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (1986)
* The Seagulls of Kristiansund (1986)
* Our Colline's a Treasure (1987)
* Remembering the Moment (1987)
* The Super Quartet Live at Sweet Basil (1987)
* Mal, Dance and Soul (1987)
* Evidence (1988)
* Art of the Duo (1988)
* No More Tears (For Lady Day) (1988)
* Crowd Scene (1989)
* Where Are You? (1989)
* Quadrologue at Utopia (1989)
* More Git' Go at Utopia (1989)
* Spring in Prague (1990)
* Hot House (1990)
* I Remember Thelonious (1992)
* My Dear Family (1993)
* Waldron-Haslam (1994)
* After Hours (1994)
* Communiqué (1994)
* Mal, Verve, Black & Blue (1994)
* Two New (1995)
* Silence (with David Murray, 2001)

With
Gene
Ammons|

* Jammin' with Gene (1956)
* Funky (1957)
* Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (1957)
* The Big Sound (1958)
* Groove Blues (1958)
* Velvet Soul (1962)
* Angel Eyes (1962)
* Sock! (1962)

With
Jackie
McLean|

* 4, 5 and 6 (1956)
* Jackie's Pal (1956)
* Jackie McLean & Co. (1957)
* Makin' the Changes (1957)
* A Long Drink of the Blues (1957)
* Strange Blues (1957)
* McLean's Scene (1957)

With
Charles Mingus|

* Jazz Composers Workshop (1954)
* Mingus at the Bohemia (1955)
* The Charles Mingus Quintet & Max Roach (1955)
* Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956)
* Blues & Roots (1959)

With the
Prestige
All Stars|

* Baritones and French Horns (aka, Dakar, 1957)
* Four Altos (1957)
* Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors (1957)
* The Prestige Jazz Quartet (1957)
* Wheelin' & Dealin' (1957)

With
others|

* All Night Long (Kenny Burrell, 1956)
* Earthy (Kenny Burrell, 1957)
* 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney, 1957)
* Where? (Ron Carter, 1961)
* The Teddy Charles Tentet (1956)
* Coolin' (Teddy Charles, 1957)
* Cattin' with Coltrane and Quinichette (John Coltrane & Paul Quinichette, 1957)
* Coltrane (1957)
* Dakar (John Coltrane, Pepper Adams & Cecil Payne, 1957)
* At the Five Spot (Eric Dolphy, both volumes, 1961)
* Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper, 1957)
* Hornful of Soul (aka, Catwalk, Bennie Green, 1960)
* Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday at Newport (1957)
* Lady in Satin (Billie Holiday, 1958)
* So Warm (Etta Jones, 1961)
* After Hours (Thad Jones, 1957)
* Olio (Thad Jones, 1957)
* Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk (1958)
* Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln, 1961)
* Teo (Teo Macero, 1957)
* On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)
* Percussion Bitter Sweet (Max Roach, 1961)
* It's Time (Max Roach, 1962)
* Speak, Brother, Speak! (Max Roach, 1962)
* For Lady (Webster Young, 1957)

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