Walt Dickerson Recordings

A Sense of Direction

A Sense of Direction (35:56)
Fantasy OJCCD 1794
Originally issued as New Jazz 8268
Recorded May 5, 1961
Rudy van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs NJ

Walt Dickerson (vb); Austin Crowe (p); Eustis Guillemet, Jr. (b); Edgar Bateman (d)

A Sense of Direction (W. Dickerson)	5:58
Ode to Boy (W. Dickerson)	5:29
Togetherness (W. Dickerson)	2:57
What's New? (J. Burke-B. Haggart)	4:44
Good Earth (W. Dickerson)	3:32
You Go to My Head (H. Gillespie-J.F. Coots)	8:17
If I Should Lose You (L. Robin-R. Rainger)	4:59

Joe Goldberg's liner notes reverse Bateman and Guillemet: "Of his associates on this record, only Philadelphia pianist Austin Crowe remains from the earlier session. Walt has known bassist Edgar Bateman and drummer Guillemet for quite a while, and it was his decision to use them here."

A Down Beat review of this LP is available elsewhere on this site.