title: Ray Bryant Plays
text: # Ray Bryant Plays
  
  Ray Bryant Plays is an album recorded by American jazz pianist Ray Bryant recorded in 1959 for the Signature label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  
  Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars calling it "a strong sampling of Ray Bryant's accessible playing during his early period".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "Delauney's Dilemma" (John Lewis) – 2:35
  * "Blue Monk" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:00
  * "Misty" (Erroll Garner) – 2:59
  * "Sneaking Around" (Ray Bryant) – 3:46
  * "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 4:00
  * "Wheatleigh Hall" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:55
  * "Doodlin'" (Horace Silver) – 4:05
  * "A Hundred Dreams from Now" (Duke Ellington) – 3:20
  * "Bags' Groove" (Milt Jackson) – 5:34
  * "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 3:08
  * "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:50
  * "Whisper Not" (Benny Golson) – 3:35
  * Recorded in NYC on October 29 (tracks 1 & 5–7), November 5, (tracks 2, 3, 10 & 12), and November 6, 1959 (tracks 4, 8, 9 & 11)
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Ray Bryant – piano
  * Tommy Bryant – bass
  * Oliver Jackson – drums
  