Gigi Gryce: Quartet & Orchestra / Nica’s Tempo

Date:	Sunday, October 30, 1955
Label/Number:	Signal 1201 / Savoy MG-12137
Personnel:	Gigi Gryce (as) Danny Bank (bs) Art Farmer (tp) Jimmy Cleveland (tb) Gunther Schuller (frhn) Bill Barber (tu) Horace Silver (p) Oscar Pettiford (b) Kenny Clarke (d)
Tracks:	Smoke Signal / In A Meditating Mood / Speculation / Kerry Dance
Location:	Hackensack
Producer:
Liner Notes:	Ira Gitler
Research Comments:	A photo in Metronome magazine’s issue of January 1956 (p. 6) shows this session in progress in the Hackensack living room. The article, “Music USA,” includes the lines: “The photo at the bottom of this column is of a Signal date, led by Gigi Gryce, including Danny Bank and French hornist John Barber [sic] and two others who shall be nameless, although their faces are evident enough in the picture – for the record, though, let’s call them Art Planter on trumpet and Jimmy Detroit on trombone.”
Status Notes:
Sources:	(CDJ) Mike Fitzgerald photo in Metronome