Kenyon Hopkins - Construction

from "The Sound Of New York" LP (1959 - ABC-Paramount 2269)

composed by Kenyon Hopkins
produced by Creed Taylor

personnel:
reeds: Phil Woods (alto sax), Ray Beckenstein (alto and baritone sax, bass clarinet and flute), Phil Bodner (english horn and flute), and Harold Feldman (alto sax and oboe)
trombones: Frank Rehak (replaced on the third day by Wayne Andre), Jimmy Cleveland , Frank Saracco and Bill Hixon (bass trombone)
guitars: Barry Galbraith and Mundel Lowe
percussion: Osie Johnson, Phil Kraus and Joe Venuto
bass: Wendell Marshall
chorus: the Geri Beitzel singers
voice: Rudolph Desco
Keene Crockett added sounds that he recorded live on the streets of New York during the actual recording sessions

album recorded November 17, 21 and 27, 1958 at Webster Hall, 119 East 11 Street, New York City
engineers were Bob Simpson and Ed Bagley
Telefunken and RCA 77-DX microphones were fed through an RCA custom console to Ampex stereo recorders
The masters were cut at Bell Sound Studios, using a Westrex head on a Grampian lathe

cover photo by Pete Turner, F.P.G.
cover design by Viceroy

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