1956 studio album by Trigger Alpert
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Trigger Happy! is the sole album led by American jazz double bassist Trigger Alpert which was recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label.[ 2] The album was also issued under Zoot Sims Al Cohn and Tony Scott 's names as East Coast Sounds .
Allmusic awarded the East Coast Sounds album 4 stars with Ken Dryden stating "Zoot Sims and Al Cohn made many records together in small-group settings, but this isn't one of their better-known dates, though it is a rewarding one... Recommended".[ 1] The British Gramophone magazine's review from 1958 called it "a session that presents first-class soloists within settings that are witty as well as intelligent. The mood is gay rather than profound, the approach formal and not at all intense".[ 3]
"Treat Me Rough " (George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 2:50 "Looking at You" (Cole Porter ) - 4:20 "Love Me Tomorrow (But Leave Me Alone Today)" (Vernon Duke , John La Touche ) - 4:51 "Trigger Happy" (Tony Scott) - 2:28 "Tranquilizer" (Dick Hyman) - 4:28 "I Like the Likes of You" (Duke, Yip Harburg ) - 4:08 "I Wish I Were in Love Again " (Lorenz Hart , Richard Rodgers ) - 3:35 "I Don't Want to Be Alone Again" (Johnny Mercer , Jimmie Smith ) - 3:28 "Trigger Fantasy"(Trigger Alpert) - 5:24 "Where's That Rainbow?" (Hart, Rodgers) - 3:35 Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City October 29, 1956 (tracks 1-3), November 23, 1956 (tracks 4-6) and November 30, 1956 (tracks 7-10)
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
As leader or co-leader The Brothers (and Stan Getz , 1949–52) Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz by Zoot Sims (1956) Tonite's Music Today (and Bob Brookmeyer , 1956) Whooeeee (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1956) Zoot! (1956) Locking Horns (and Joe Newman , 1957) Stretching Out (and Bob Brookmeyer, 1958) Jazz Alive! A Night at the Half Note (and Al Cohn, Phil Woods , 1959) Down Home (1960) Two Jims and Zoot /Otra Vez (Jimmy Raney and Jim Hall , 1964) Inter-Action (and Sonny Stitt , 1965) Waiting Game (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple leaders, 1967) Nirvana (and Bucky Pizzarelli , Buddy Rich , 1974) Basie & Zoot (and Count Basie , 1975) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , 1975) Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (and Joe Pass , Oscar Peterson , 1975) Soprano Sax (1976) Hawthorne Nights (1976) If I'm Lucky (and Jimmy Rowles , 1977) For Lady Day (1978) Warm Tenor (and Jimmy Rowles , 1979) The Sweetest Sounds (and Rune Gustafsson , 1979) Just Friends (and Harry Edison , 1980) Art 'n' Zoot (and Art Pepper , 1981) Recordings withAl Cohn From A to...Z (1956) The Sax Section (Cohn led, 1956) Tenor Conclave (and Hank Mobley , John Coltrane , 1957) The Four Brothers... Together Again! (and Herbie Steward , Serge Chaloff , 1957) Al and Zoot (1957) Blues and Haikus (Jack Kerouac , 1959) SteveIreneo! (and Irene Kral , Steve Allen , 1959) Son of Drum Suite (Cohn, 1960) You 'n' Me (1960) Either Way (1961) Jazz Mission to Moscow (Cohn, 1962) Body and Soul (1973) Motoring Along (1974) WithQuincy Jones WithGerry Mulligan With others Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (1963) Encounter! (Pepper Adams , 1968) Trigger Happy! /East Coast Sounds (Trigger Alpert /Sims, Cohn, Tony Scott , 1956) Chet Baker & Strings (1953–54) Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (1959) The Bosses (Count Basie and "Big Joe" Turner , 1973) Louis Bellson Quintet (1954) The Genius of Ray Charles (1959) Jazz Is Universal (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band , 1961) Chris Connor (1956) The Book Cooks (Booker Ervin , 1960) Loose Blues (Bill Evans , 1962) The Aztec Suite (Art Farmer , 1959) South American Cookin' (Curtis Fuller , 1961) Creole Cookin' (Bobby Hackett , 1967) The Hawk in Hi Fi (Coleman Hawkins , 1956) Portraits on Standards (Stan Kenton , 1953) The Kenton Era (Stan Kenton, 1953) The Manhattan Transfer (released 1975) Profiles (Gary McFarland , 1966) Something to Swing About (Carmen McRae , 1959) Ms. Jazz (Carmen McRae, 1973) Metronome All-Stars 1956 (1956) The Complete Town Hall Concert (Charles Mingus , 1962) Arranged by Montrose (Jack Montrose , 1954) Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oliver Nelson , 1966) The Sound of Feeling (Oliver Nelson, 1966) Jazzhattan Suite (Oliver Nelson/Jazz Interactions Orchestra, 1967) All the Sad Young Men (Anita O'Day , 1962) Transition (Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton , 1974) Shorty Rogers Courts the Count (1954) Samba Para Dos (Lalo Schifrin , Bob Brookmeyer, 1963) Moonlight in Vermont (Johnny Smith , 1952) Phoebe Snow (1974) Broadway Soul (Sonny Stitt , 1965) Vaughan and Violins (Sarah Vaughan , 1958) The Duke Ellington Songbook, Vol. 1 (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) Linger Awhile: Live at Newport and More (Sarah Vaughan, 1979) The Jazz Guitarist (Chuck Wayne, 1953) At Newport '63 (Joe Williams , 1963)