At Newport

Artist: 
Donald Byrd
Gigi Gryce
Cecil Taylor
Recorded: 
Jul 1957
Released: 
1958
Genre: 
Jazz
Venue: 
Freebody Park
Label: 
Verve Records
Catalog #: 
MI-1071
Personnel: 
Donald Byrd
Gigi Gryce
Cecil Taylor
Osie Johnson
Hank Jones
Steve Lacy
Wendell Marshall
Buell Neidlinger

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At Newport is a live album by the Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory and the Cecil Taylor Quartet recorded for the Verve label at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1957. The original LP album featured one side of performances by Taylor with Buell Neidlinger, Denis Charles and Steve Lacy and the other by Gryce, Byrd, Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall, and Osie Johnson.