Introducing Kenny Cox is the debut album by American jazz pianist Kenny Cox

Kenny Cox

Kenny Cox was a jazz pianist performing in the post bop, hard bop and bebop mediums. Cox was pianist for singer Etta Jones during the 1960s and was also a member of a quintet led by trombonist George Bohannon...

 featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label. The 2000 CD reissue added Cox's second Blue Note album Multidirection as bonus track

Bonus track

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Matt Collar awarded the album 4 stars stating "Though well-versed in the traditions of jazz standards and bop, Cox and his ensemble resemble most closely here the classic Miles Davis

Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

quintet of the mid- and late '60s. But rather than merely aping Davis, the Contemporary Jazz Quintet had a muscular and urban group sensibility all its own. In that sense, this is fiery, expansive and cerebral post-bop of the highest order".

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Cox except as indicated

1. "Mystique" - 4:44
2. "You" (David Durrah) - 5:28
3. "Trance Dance" - 6:08
4. "Eclipse" (Leon Henderson) - 5:51
5. "Number Four" (Charles Moore) - 10:48
6. "Diahnn" (Henderson) - 8:37
7. "Spellbound" - 5:23 Bonus track on CD reissue
8. "Snuck In" (Moore) - 6:03 Bonus track on CD reissue
9. "Sojourn" - 6:36 Bonus track on CD reissue
10. "Multidirection" (Moore) - 9:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
11. "What Other One" - 4:58 Bonus track on CD reissue
12. "Gravity Point" (Moore) - 5:08 Bonus track on CD reissue
    • Recorded at United Sound System, Detroit, Michigan on December 9, 1968 (tracks 1-6) and G.M. Recording Studios, Detroit, Michigan on November 26, 1969 (tracks 7-12).

Personnel

• Kenny Cox
  Kenny Cox
  Kenny Cox was a jazz pianist performing in the post bop, hard bop and bebop mediums. Cox was pianist for singer Etta Jones during the 1960s and was also a member of a quintet led by trombonist George Bohannon...
  
   - piano
  Piano
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• Charles Moore - trumpet
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• Leon Henderson - tenor saxophone
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• Ron Brooks - bass
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• Danny Spencer - drums
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