The Bud Shank Quartet is an album by Bud Shank recorded in January 1956 for the Pacific Jazz label.

"...The two quartet albums The Bud Shank Quartet and Bud Shank Plays Tenor are the most representative of that 50s' cool school, and the origin of the West Coast aesthetic. Shank's alto style was certainly in the Art Pepper mode, and Claude Williamson was a bop-inclined pianist with a single-note percussive phrasing much in the Bud Powell manner. In the opening track Bag Of Blues, Shank gives a direction to his playing that is determined and unwavering. Williamson is not only supportive but shows some fire in his approach..."

Pierre Giroux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHEsO0XgXs&list=PLC4I9bkPeuUC_I9MGqF8ytnrS_BAwdJTr&index=1

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