AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD second set release from Ike Quebec, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details
“Blue And Sentimental”; “It Might As Well Be Spring”; “Heavy Soul” and “Bossa Nova Soul Samba”
Welcome back Ike Quebec! 1945-1961, that’s a long time between releases! So what happened to the great tenor saxophonist? Sadly an all too familiar story of the decline of big band jazz audiences followed by serious drug problems. Ike Quebec had quite an extraordinary split career which either end you look at was remarkable for the jazz men he played with. The early years in the 1940s gets you Hot Lips Page, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge. While the comeback years of the 1960s courtesy of friend and great fan Alfred Lion at Blue Note gets you Grant Green, Paul Chambers, “Philly” Joe Jones, Sonny Clark, Louis Hayes, Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton, Al Harewood and Kenny Burrell. Check out, Classic Organists AMSC1306, Classic Tenor Sax AMSC1285, Paul Chambers AMSC1324, Grant Green AMSC1065, Sonny Clark AMSC1250, Kenny Burrell AMSC1327.
CD1
1-6: ‘Blue And Sentimental’
1. Blue And Sentimental
2. Minor Impulse
3. Don’t Take Your Love From Me
4. Blues For Charlie
5. Like
6. Count Every Star
7-12: ‘It Might As Well Be Spring’
7. It Might As Well Be Spring
8. A Light Reprieve
9. Easy-Don’t Hurt
10. Lover Man
11. Ol’ Man River
12. Willow Weep For Me
CD2
1-8: ‘Heavy Soul’
1. Acquitted
2. Just One More Chance
3. Que’s Dilemma
4. Brother Can You Spare A Dime
5. The Man I Love
6. Heavy Soul
7. I Want A Little Girl
8. Nature Boy
9-17: ‘Bossa Nova Soul Samba’
9. Loie
10. Lloro Tu Despedida
11. Goin’ Home
12. Me ‘N You
13. Liebestraum
14. Shu Shu
15. Blue Samba
16. Favela
17. Linda Flor
