Asia Minor (album)

Asia Minor is an album by Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter Dizzy Reece featuring performances recorded in 1962 and originally released on the New Jazz label.

[1] Contemporaneous reviews of Asia Minor were positive, with the Jazz Journal describing it as "modern jazz at a high level".

[5] Critical reflections of the album since its release have often concluded that it was Reece's finest session of the period[6] and a "masterpiece".

[7] A review by Scott Yanow for AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and stated: "The solos tend to be concise but quite meaningful, and, overall, this hard bop but occasionally surprising session is quite memorable".

[3] All compositions by Dizzy Reece except where noted.