0021 Dizzy Reece [Progress Report] FLAC 8(39.32)

Contributed by grumpy
Contemporary review (amusing to see Phil Seamen referred to as backward looking!):
I must admit to regarding this record unfavourably on first hearing- but it reveals a deal more depth and commend-ability on further listening. It is an undisguised showcase for Dizzy Reece and the title of the disc is "Progress Report.' Although he is supported here by the remaining handful of backward looking British modernists, it is his disc, and he seizes his opportunity with all three valves.
Tony Hall in his cover notes enthuses, as always, about Dizzy Reece’s playing, and understandably so, for he reveals himself here as a talented musician. He has a command and feel for his instrument that few other players on the British scene can match. Unfortunately, he seems to be limiting his endeavours at the moment to a very small corner of jazz. The whole mood of this LP is, to my ears, claustrophobically turned back-wards into the middle and early forties. I would very much like to hear Dizzy break out of the strait jacket that he and the other musicians have voluntarily donned on this disc. He gives promise of doing so on many occasions, and I look forward with interest to Dizzy's next LP. Given the wider range that he must obviously seek, Dizzy Reece will become a very powerful voice in British jazz.
Brian Nicholls, Jazz Journal Vol 10, No6, June 1957.

(01 04 05 07)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Victor Feldman - piano
Lloyd Thompson - bass
Phil Seamen - drums 
(02 06)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Johnny Weed - piano
Dave Goldberg - guitar
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums
(03 08)
Dizzy Reece - trumpet
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Terry Shannon - piano
Lennie Bush - bass
Phil Seamen - drums

01 Riviera
02 Chorous
03 Out Of Nowhere
04 Momentum
05 Now
06 Basie Line
07 Gypsy
08 Scrapple For The Apple

Label: Tempo TAP9
Recorded: April 26 July 23  December 28 1956
Lineage: CD>FLAC