Lonesome Traveler is an album by pianist Ray Bryant recorded and released by Cadet Records in 1966.[1][2][3][4][5]

Lonesome Traveler
Studio album by Ray Bryant
Released	1966
Recorded	September 1 & 8, 1966
Studio	RCA Studios, New York City, NY
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:35
Label	Cadet LP/LPS-778
Producer	Esmond Edwards
Ray Bryant chronology
Gotta Travel On (1966) Lonesome Traveler (1966) Slow Freight (1967)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]

Flophouse magazine stated: "Lonesome Traveler is one of pianist Ray Bryant’s grittiest recordings and his second album on Cadet – the subsidiary of Chicago blues and r&b label Chess. ...By 1966, Bryant, a pianist with a lot of gospel and blues feeling and an uncommonly firm, propulsive left hand had a satisfactory decade to look back upon".[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Ray Bryant, except where indicated.

1. "Lonesome Traveler" (Lee Hays) – 3:14
2. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 6:03
3. "These Boots Were Made for Walkin'" (Lee Hazlewood) – 3:36
4. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 5:14
5. "The Blue Scimitar" (Esmond Edwards) – 4:22
6. "Gettin' Loose" – 3:42
7. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 4:30
8. "Cubano Chant" – 4:10
9. "Brother This 'N' Sister That" – 4:43

Personnel

• Ray Bryant – piano
• Snooky Young – trumpet
• Clark Terry – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Jimmy Rowser (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 8-9), Richard Davis (tracks 1, 3 & 6) – bass
• Freddie Waits – drums

References