Cliff Craft

1958 studio album by Cliff Jordan

Cliff Craft

Studio album by

Cliff Jordan

Released

1958

Recorded

November 10, 1957

Studio

Van Gelder Studio
Hackensack, NJ

Genre

Jazz

Length

43:18

Label

Blue Note
BLP 1582

Producer

Alfred Lion

Clifford Jordan chronology

Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons
(1957)

Cliff Craft
(1958)

Spellbound
(1960)

Cliff Craft is an album by American jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan recorded on November 10, 1957 and released on Blue Note the following year.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The AllMusic review by Lee Bloom calling Cliff Craft a "wonderfully relaxed recording, which dates from a very fertile period of the renowned jazz label's history".^[2]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cliff Jordan, except as noted.

Side 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Laconia"	7:06
2.	"Soul-Lo Blues"	8:29
3.	"Cliff Craft"	6:30

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Confirmation"	Charlie Parker	7:34
2.	"Sophisticated Lady"	Duke Ellington Irving Mills Mitchell Parish	6:46
3.	"Anthropology"	Dizzy Gillespie Parker	7:03

Personnel

Musicians

Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone
Art Farmer – trumpet (except "Sophisticated Lady")
Sonny Clark – piano
George Tucker – bass
Louis Hayes – drums

Technical personnel

Alfred Lion – producer
Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer
Reid Miles – design
Francis Wolff – photography
Robert Levin – liner notes

References

^ Blue Note discography accessed December 1, 2010
^ ^a ^b Allmusic Review accessed December 1, 2010
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 800. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

Clifford Jordan

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

As
leader or
co-leader

Blowing in from Chicago (1957)
Cliff Jordan (1957)
Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (1957)
Cliff Craft (1957)
Spellbound (1960)
A Story Tale (1961)
Starting Time (1961)
Bearcat (1962)
These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965)
Soul Fountain (1966)
In the World (1969)
Glass Bead Games (1973)
Half Note (1974)
Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975)
On Stage Vol. 1 (1975)
On Stage Vol. 2 (1975)
On Stage Vol. 3 (1975)
Firm Roots (1975)
The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)
Remembering Me-Me (1976)
Inward Fire (1977)
The Adventurer (1978)
Hello, Hank Jones (1978)
Hyde Park After Dark (1981)
Repetition (1984)
Dr. Chicago (1984)
Two Tenor Winner (1984)
The Rotterdam Session (1985)
Royal Ballads (1986)
Live at Ethell's (1987)
Masters from Different Worlds (1989)
Four Play (1990)
The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (1989–91)
Play What You Feel (1990)
Down Through the Years (1991)

With
Art
Farmer

Mirage (1982)
You Make Me Smile (1984)
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987)
Blame It on My Youth (1988)
Ph.D. (1989)

With
Charles
Mingus

Cornell 1964 (March 1964)
Town Hall Concert (April 1964)
Astral Weeks (April 1964)
Mingus in Europe Volume I (April 1964)
Mingus in Europe Volume II (April 1964)
Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (June 1964)

With
Lee
Morgan

Here's Lee Morgan (1960)
Expoobident (1960)
Take Twelve (1962)

With
Max
Roach

Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
It's Time (1962)
Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)

With
Cedar
Walton

Spectrum (1968)
The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969)
A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1/Naima (1973)
A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973)
The Pentagon (1976)

With
others

Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957)
Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Richard Davis, 1972)
Dealin' (Richard Davis, 1973)
Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992)
Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)
Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood, 1985)
Shades (Andrew Hill, 1986)
J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1961)
Con Alma! (Charles McPherson, 1965)
Any Old Time (Carmen McRae, 1986)
Carmen Sings Monk (Carmen McRae, 1988)
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
Manhattan Project (Dizzy Reece, 1976)
The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Sahib Shihab, 1957)
Further Explorations (Horace Silver, 1958)
Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970)
What It Is (Mal Waldron, 1981)
Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1967)

v t e Sonny Clark
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not release.
As leader	Dial "S" for Sonny (1957) Sonny's Crib (1957) Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note, 1957) Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957–59) Cool Struttin' (1958) The Art of The Trio (1958) Blues in the Night (1958) Standards (1958) Leapin' and Lopin' (1961)
As sideman	Minor Move (Tina Brooks, 1958) Blue Serge (Serge Chaloff, 1956) Lou Takes Off (Lou Donaldson, 1957) Bone & Bari (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Curtis Fuller Volume 3 (1957) Two Bones (Curtis Fuller, 1958) Go! (Dexter Gordon, 1962) A Swingin' Affair (Dexter Gordon, 1962) Soul Stirrin' (Bennie Green, 1958) The 45 Session (Bennie Green, 1958) Gooden's Corner (Grant Green, 1961) Oleo (1962) Nigeria (1962) The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark (Grant Green, 1961–62) Born to Be Blue (Grant Green, 1962) The Congregation (Johnny Griffin, 1957) John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell (1957) Showcase (Philly Joe Jones, 1959) Cliff Craft (Clifford Jordan, 1957) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1959) A Fickle Sonance (Jackie McLean, 1961) Vertigo (Jackie McLean, 1962) Tippin' the Scales (Jackie McLean, 1962) Poppin' (Hank Mobley, 1957) Hank Mobley (1957) Curtain Call (Hank Mobley, 1957) Candy (Lee Morgan, 1957–58) Easy Living (Ike Quebec, 1962) The Sound of Sonny (Sonny Rollins, 1957) Smithville (Louis Smith, 1957) Stan 'The Man' Turrentine (1960) Jubilee Shout!!! (Stanley Turrentine, 1962) Preach Brother! (Don Wilkerson, 1962)