title: Mad Thad
text: # Mad Thad
  
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  Mad Thad is a Hardbop jazz album by Thad Jones recorded in 1957 for Period Records.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * Whisper Not (Benny Golson) – 5:35
  * Quiet Sip (Thad Jones) – 9:01
  * Ballad Medley:
     * Flamingo (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson) – 1:59
     * If You Were Mine (Johnny Mercer, Matty Malneck) – 1:31
     * I'm Through With Love (Johnny Mercer, Gus Kahn and Joseph A. "Fud" Livingston) – 1:40
     * Love Walked In (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:10
  * Cat Meets Chick (Leonard Feather) – 5:22
  * Bird Song (Thad Jones) – 8:21
  * Jumping For Jane (Jane Feather) – 5:31
  * Mad Thad (Quincy Jones) – 4:39
  
  ## Personnel
  
  24 December 1956 Session: (Tracks 1,6,7)
  
  * Thad Jones – Trumpet, Composer
  * Jimmy Jones – Piano
  * Frank Foster – Sax, (Tenor)
  * Doug Watkins – Bass
  * Jo Jones – Drums
  * Quincy Jones – Arranger, Conductor on 1,7
  
  6 January 1957 Session: (Tracks 2,3,4,5)
  
  * Thad Jones – Trumpet, Composer
  * Frank Wess – Sax, (Tenor), Flute
  * Henry Coker – Trombone
  * Tommy Flanagan – Piano
  * Jimmy Jones – Piano
  * Eddie Jones – Bass
  * Elvin Jones – Drums
  