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Nica's Tempo

Nica's Tempo
Nica's Tempo (album cover).jpg
Studio album by Gigi Gryce
Released 1955
Recorded October 15 & 22, 1955
Genre Jazz
Label Savoy
(originally Signal Records).
Gigi Gryce chronology
Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce
(1955)
Nica's Tempo
(1955)
Jazz Lab
(1957)
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Nica's Tempo is an album by Gigi Gryce recorded in 1955. The title track is a reference to Nica de Koenigswarter (born Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild) a.k.a. "The Bebop Baroness" or "The Jazz Baroness", a patron of jazz musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.

The album was originally issued as Gigi Gryce Quartet And Orchestra (Signal S 1201). The Signal masters were later acquired by Savoy Records, who reissued this album in 1958.

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 6: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 22, 1955

Tracks 3, 5: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 22, 1955

Tracks 7-10: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, October 15, 1955



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