Quartette Trés Bien ‎– Kilimanjaro

Decca ‎records 1964– DL 4548

Notes:

This is the first set of recordings but second release by St. Louis group QTB  
Often compared to the Ramsey Lewis/Young-Holt Trio,
Billy Larkin and the Delegates,
Odell Brown & the Organ-izers, The Three Sounds, etc.


One of the earliest albums from the legendary Quartette Trés Bien
-- the hip piano combo from the St Louis scene --
one who were almost to that city's jazz world what Ramsey Lewis
 was to Chicago! Unlike other piano groups of the time,
which were trios, the Quartette featured an additional percussionist
 in their lineup of piano, bass, and drums --
and that added percussion really gives records like this a
super-cool kick -- a romping sort of rhythm that's totally great!
Pianist Jeter Thompson's also one heck of a great writer
 -- as you'll hear on the album's original "Kilimanjaro" --
and percussionist Percy James really makes other.


Jeter Thompson - Piano
Richard Simmons - Bass
Albert St. James - Drums
Percy James - Percussion

Produced by Norman Wienstroer  

tracklist:

A1        Kilimanjaro
Written-By – Jeter Thompson
6:22
A2        I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Written-By – George Cory
2:22
A3        Secretly
Written-By – Georges Garvarentz, Marcel Stellman
3:05
A4        I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Written-By – Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart*
4:39
B1        My Favourite Things
Written-By – Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II*
5:05
B2        My One And Only Love
Written-By – Guy Wood, Robert Mellin
3:28
B3        Ramblin' Rose
Written-By – Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman
2:32
B4        You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
Written-By – Bob Russell, John B. Brooks*
4:52

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