Cliff Craft

Cliff Craft is an album by American jazz saxophonist Clifford Jordan recorded on November 10, 1957 and released on Blue Note the following year.^[1]

Cliff Craft
Studio album by Cliff Jordan
Released	1958
Recorded	November 10, 1957
Studio	Van Gelder Studio Hackensack, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	43:18
Label	Blue Note BLP 1582
Producer	Alfred Lion
Clifford Jordan chronology
Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (1957) Cliff Craft (1958) Spellbound (1960)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

The AllMusic review by Lee Bloom calling Cliff Craft a "wonderfully relaxed recording, which dates from a very fertile period of the renowned jazz label's history".^[2]

Track listing

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Laconia"	7:06
2.	"Soul-Lo Blues"	8:29
3.	"Cliff Craft"	6:30

All tracks are written by Cliff Jordan, except as noted.

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Confirmation"	Charlie Parker	7:34
2.	"Sophisticated Lady"	Duke Ellington Irving Mills Mitchell Parish	6:46
3.	"Anthropology"	Dizzy Gillespie Parker	7:03

Personnel

Musicians

• Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone
• Art Farmer – trumpet (except "Sophisticated Lady")
• Sonny Clark – piano
• George Tucker – bass
• Louis Hayes – drums

Technical personnel

• Alfred Lion – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer
• Reid Miles – design
• Francis Wolff – photography
• Robert Levin – liner notes