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Top Brass (subtitled Featuring 5 Trumpets) is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Ernie Wilkins featuring performances recorded in 1955 and first released on the Savoy label. The album consists of five original selections with trumpeters Ray Copeland, Idrees Sulieman, Donald Byrd, Ernie Royal and Joe Wilder followed by five standards featuring each individually.

Track listing:
All compositions by Ernie Wilkins, except where indicated.

“58 Market Street” (Earl Van Riper, Ernie Wilkins) – 4:26
“Trick or Treat” (Manny Albam, Wilkins) – 5:22
“Speedway” – 4:43
“Dot’s What” (Johnny Mandel) – 5:41
“Top Brass” – 3:22
“Willow Weep for Me” (Ann Ronell) – 2:16
“Imagination” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 4:41
“It Might as Well Be Spring” (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 1:01
“The Nearness of You” (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 2:37
“Taking a Chance on Love” (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) – 3:43

Personnel:
Ernie Wilkins – arranger, conductor
Ray Copeland (tracks 1-5 & 10), Idrees Sulieman (tracks 1-5 & 7), Donald Byrd (tracks 1-5 & 8), Ernie Royal (tracks 1-5 & 9), Joe Wilder (tracks 1-6) – trumpet
Hank Jones – piano
Wendell Marshall – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums

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Released: 1956
Recorded: November 8, 1955
Studio: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Length: 37:52
Label: Savoy
MG 12044
Producer: Ozzie Cadena