The Fox (Harold Land album)

The Fox is a 1960 album by Harold Land, originally released on the Hifijazz label and reissued by Contemporary in 1969 and on CD by Original Jazz Classics in 1991. The album features trumpeter Dupree Bolton.[6]

The Fox
Studio album by Harold Land
Released	1960
Recorded	August, 1959
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Label	Hifijazz; reissued by Contemporary
Producer	David Axelrod
Harold Land chronology
Harold in the Land of Jazz (1958) The Fox (1960) West Coast Blues! (1960)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz	[4]
Tom Hull	B+[5]

Reception

Allmusic's Scott Yanow gives the album four and a half stars and describes it as an "excellent straight-ahead quintet set" and "high-quality hard bop".[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz rates the album three and a half stars and describes Land as an "underrated composer with a deep feeling for the blues" and states that The Fox, "tricky and fugitive as much of it is, must be thought his finest moment".[2]

Track listing

1. "The Fox" (Land) 5:36
2. "Mirror Mind Rose" (Hope) 6:32
3. "One Second, Please" (Hope) 5:51
4. "Sims A-Plenty" (Hope) 6:17
5. "Little Chris" (Land) 5:10
6. "One Down" (Hope) 7:23

Personnel

• Harold Land - tenor saxophone
• Dupree Bolton - trumpet
• Elmo Hope - piano
• Herbie Lewis - bass
• Frank Butler - drums

See also

• Harold Land discography

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th Ed.) Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 124. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 512. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
5. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Harold Land". Tom Hull. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
6. Gioia, Ted: In Search of Dupree Bolton April, 2009 (retrieved 5/15/2013)