{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Jazz of Two Cities | type = Album | artist = [[Warne Marsh]] | cover = Jazz of Two Cities.jpg | alt = | released = 1957 | recorded = October 3 & 11, 1956 | venue = | studio = [[Radio Recorders]], Los Angeles, CA | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Imperial Records|Imperial]]<br /><small>LP 9027</small> | producer = | chronology = [[Warne Marsh]] | prev_title = [[Lee Konitz with Warne Marsh]] | prev_year = 1955 | next_title = [[Art Pepper with Warne Marsh]] | next_year = 1956 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = ''The Winds of Marsh'' cover | type = Album | cover = The Winds of Marsh.jpg | border = | alt = | caption = }} }}
'''''Jazz of Two Cities''''', is an album by saxophonist [[Warne Marsh]], recorded in 1956 and released on the [[Imperial Records|Imperial]] label.<ref name="Imperial Records discography">Edwards, D. & Chapman, M. [http://www.bsnpubs.com/imperial/imperialc.html Imperial Album Discography, Part 2 (1956–1958): LPs 9001-9050] accessed May 12, 2017</ref><ref>Godwin, M. [http://www.warnemarsh.info/discography_2.htm Discography of Warne Marion Marsh] accessed May 12, 2017</ref><ref>[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/warne-marsh-discography/ Enciclopedia del Jazz: Warne Marsh] accessed May 12, 2017</ref> The album was later released in stereo as '''''The Winds of Marsh''''' which featured different takes of four of the numbers.
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic" /> |rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=953}}</ref> }} The [[AllMusic]] review noted, "This is some very fine music by a band with an exceptionally rich collective imagination. It is clear that, in the hands of this combo, every theme is treated like a question with an absolutely limitless amount of harmonic and melodic answers".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Brandon|last=Burke|class=album |id= mw0000732028 |title=''Jazz of Two Cities'' – Review |accessdate=May 12, 2017}}</ref>
== Track listing == # "Smog Eyes" (Ted Brown) – 3:30 # "Ear Conditioning" (Ronnie Ball) – 5:13 # "[[Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)|Lover Man]]" ([[Jimmy Davis (songwriter)|Jimmy Davis]], [[Ram Ramirez]], James Sherman) – 4:27 # "Quintessence" (Ball) – 2:13 # "Jazz of Two Cities" (Brown) – 4:38 # "Dixie's Dilemma" (Warne Marsh) – 4:20 # "Tschaikovsky's Opus #42, Mt. 3" ([[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]) – 3:59 # "I Never Knew" ([[Ted Fio Rito]], [[Gus Kahn]]) – 5:10
== Personnel == *[[Warne Marsh]], [[Ted Brown (saxophonist)|Ted Brown]] – [[tenor saxophone]] *[[Ronnie Ball]] – [[piano]] *[[Ben Tucker]] – [[double bass|bass]] *Jeff Morton – [[drum kit|drums]]
== References == {{reflist}} {{Warne Marsh}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Warne Marsh albums]] [[Category:1957 albums]] [[Category:Imperial Records albums]]