Tommy Flanagan

Artist:  Tommy Flanagan
Birth Name:  Thomas Lee Flanagan
Born:  March 16, 1930.  Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died:  November 16, 2001 (Aged 71).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer
Instruments:  Piano

Tommy Flanagan was an American Jazz Pianist and Composer.  His influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole.  He had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' landmark Saxophone Colossus, with John Coltrane on Giant Steps, Wes Montgomery on The Incredible Jazz Guitar.  In 1962, he became vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's full-time accompanist.

Artist:  Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Idrees Sulieman
Title:  The Cats (Limited Reissue)  (2004)
Genre:  Jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz
Label:  New Jazz/Prestige Records original released in 1959, remastered by Fantasy Records in 2004
Rating:  *****

Tracks:

 1.  Minor Mishap  (7:28)
 2.  How Long Has This Been Going On?  (6:00)
 3.  Eclypso  (8:00)
 4.  Solacium  (9:11)
 5.  Tommy's Tune  (12:00)

Personnel:

Tommy Flanagan:  Piano
John Coltrane:  Tenor Saxophone
Kenny Burrell:  Guitar
Idrees Sulieman:  Trumpet
Doug Watkins:  Bass
Louis Hayes:  Drums

The Cats is an album by Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell and Idrees Sulieman, was original released in 1959 on New Jazz a subsidiary Label of Prestige Records, and remastered and reissued by Fantasy Records in 2004, using 20-Bit.