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Kelly Great is an album recorded on August 12, 1959 by pianist Wynton Kelly, and released that same year on the Vee-Jay record label. The photograph was taken by Chuck Stewart. Sid McCoy produced the 35:24 long session and Cozy Noda was responsible for the digital remastering.

Kelly, Morgan and Shorter all contributed compositions for this for song session that included the following lineup of tunes – Wrinkles (Wynton Kelly), Mama G (Wayne Shorter), June Night (Abel Baer, Cliff Friend), What Know (Lee Morgan) and Sidney (Shorter).

With Kelly on piano leading the quintet he enlisted the talents of Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on the drums.

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