Western Suite
| Western Suite | ||||
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| Released | Late June/early July 1960 | |||
| Recorded | December 3, 1958 Atlantic Studios, NYC and Lenox, MA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Atlantic LP 1330 | |||
| Producer | Nesuhi Ertegun | |||
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Western Suite is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Atlantic label in 1960.
Featuring an unusual trio of clarinet, guitar and valve trombone, the first half of Western Suite is devoted to Giuffre's country music/folk-inspired suite, while the second half features a lengthy and abstract version of the big band standard "Topsy" and a Thelonious Monk song.