1. Reception

2. Track listing

3. Personnel

4. References

Top Brass (subtitled Featuring 5 Trumpets) is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Ernie Wilkins featuring performances recorded in 1955 and first released on the Savoy label.^[1][2] The album consists of five original selections with trumpeters Ray Copeland, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal and Joe Wilder followed by five standards featuring each individually.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3 stars stating "If there's any complaint about this studio date at all, it is the excess reverb used at times, which is surprising due to Rudy Van Gelder's usually impeccable sound". ^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Ernie Wilkins except where noted

1. "58 Market Street" (Earl Van Riper, Ernie Wilkins) - 4:26
2. "Trick or Treat" (Manny Albam, Wilkins) - 5:22
3. "Speedway" - 4:43
4. "Dot's What" (Johnny Mandel) - 5:41
5. "Top Brass" - 3:22
6. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 2:16
7. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 4:41
8. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 1:01
9. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) - 2:37
10. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) - 3:43

Personnel

• Ernie Wilkins - arranger, conductor
• Ray Copeland (tracks 1-5 & 10), Idrees Sulieman (tracks 1-5 & 7), Donald Byrd (tracks 1-5 & 8), Ernie Royal (tracks 1-5 & 9), Joe Wilder (tracks 1-6) - trumpet
• Hank Jones - piano
• Wendell Marshall - bass
• Kenny Clarke – drums

References

• Tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's singles
• Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles
• Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's singles
• Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles
• Tennis at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's singles
• Tennis at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's doubles
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's singles
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's team
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games – Mixed doubles
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's doubles
• Tennis at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's singles
• Tennis at the 2007 Pan American Games
• Tennis at the 2007 Pan American Games – Women's doubles
• Tennis at the 2007 Pan American Games – Women's singles
• Tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Tennis at the Asian Games
• Tennis at the Olympic Games
• Tennis at the Pan American Games
• Tennis at the summer olympics
• Tennis Australia
• Tennis Ball
• Tennis ball banksia
• Tennis Ball Banksia