All Day Long is a jazz album by the Prestige All Stars, later credited to trumpeter Donald Byrd and guitarist Kenny Burrell, released in 1957 on the Prestige label.[4] All tracks were composed by the members of the band.

All Day Long
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1957[1]
RecordedJanuary 4, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Length45:35
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7081
ProducerBob Weinstock
Kenny Burrell chronology
All Night Long
(1956)
All Day Long
(1957)
Earthy
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Side A of the LP only included the blues "All Day Long" described by Dan Morgenstern[5] as "A simple but effective structure" that "controls the performance and keeps it solidly together: each soloist enters with a break, plays 12 bars, and then breaks again before extemporizing at great length". Ira Gitler in the original liner notes[6] points out that the theme "A.T." is dedicated by Frank Foster to Art Taylor (hence the initials); "Say Listen" "derives its name from the attention calling phrase that (Byrd) often verbally employed".

Album design

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The cover of the original album in 1957 and of the CD reissue in 1990 show two photographs of the George Washington Bridge in New York connecting Manhattan to New Jersey, taken in the daytime and by night.

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All Day Long"Burrell18:18
2."Slim Jim"Byrd7:28
3."Say Listen"Byrd6:41
4."A.T."Foster6:40
5."C.P.W." (*)Foster5:54

(*)Note: Track 5 was not part of original vinyl and was initially issued on the LP compilation The Best of Kenny Burrell[7] (Prestige 1966). This is an additional track included in the CD version of 1990, digitally remastered by the engineer Phil De Lancie at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley (California).

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Billboard Apr 29, 1957
  2. ^ AllMusic Review, accessed July 7, 2019
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004)[1992]. "Kenny Burrell". The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th. ed.). Penguin Books Ltd, England. pp. 237–238. ISBN 0-141-01416-4.
  4. ^ The Prestige All Stars - All Day Long, retrieved 2022-03-24
  5. ^ Morgenstern, Dan (1963). All Day Long (album liner notes). Kenny Burrell. New York: Prestige Records Inc. Prestige 7277.
  6. ^ Gitler, Ira (1957). All Day Long (CD booklet). Kenny Burrell. New York: Prestige. p. 4. OJC2O 456-2.
  7. ^ Discogs: Kenny Burrell - The Best of Kenny Burrell, accessed July 7, 2019