Minority is a 16-bar jazz standard in a minor key written by Gigi Gryce. It was first recorded with Clifford Brown in Paris on October 8, 1953. The tune has since become a staple of the jazz repertoire and has been recorded more than forty times. Gryce later recorded it with Art Blakey on the 1954 album Blakey and again on his 1960 album The Hap’nin’s. It is commonly played in F minor and has been tackled by many greats, including Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Art Pepper, Pat Martino, Bud Shank and Phil Woods, and Jackie McLean. Gryce, born in 1925, was an influential alto saxophonist and arranger who helped shape postwar jazz through his writing as well as his performing.
