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30 Jan, 2020
Great Jazz Reeds, is Great!
This was an album I heard a lot when I was young, my dad played it a lot and when my parents had parties this often got put on as the evening wore on and the volume increased. It is a really good compilation featuring a range of saxophonist: Sidney Bechet, Chu Berry, Charlie Parker, Ben Webster and Benny Carter and the clarinettists: Johnny Dodds, Pee Wee Russell and Mezz Mezzrow. Ironically it was Lionel Hampton’s vibe playing on Shufflin’ at the Hollywood that first caught my imagination, or at least that was my favourite track, although I always liked it all
20 May, 2020
Classic Album
This is a great early solo album by a great jazz composer and performer. When he was in Miles Davis’s band his were the only composition that were always played as he wrote them. Miles would alter compositions as a rule but he never felt the need to with Shorter. This album has Sorter as the only horn for the first time on his solo work. Up until then he had Lee Morgan on trumpet and this allows Shorter to flex his musical/soloing muscles.
The band is stellar: McCoyTyner - piano, Reggie Workman - bass and Elvin Jones - drums so he has a more than solid backing. The skill and musicianship oozes out every second of this album, it sounds as fresh and new today as the day it was recorded.
These Blue Note vinyl reissues give these classic albums the respect that they deserve and sound fantastic!
08 Feb, 2020
Black Saint...Excellent!
1 of 1 found this helpful I am loving hearing this album on vinyl again!