QUEBEC IKE – COMPLETE BLUE NOTE 45 SESSIONS LP3
99,00 €
LP 1
SIDE 1:
- A Light Reprieve
- Buzzard Lope
- Blue Monday
- Zonky
SIDE 2:
- Later for the Rock
- Sweet and Lovely
- Dear John
- Blue Friday
LP 2
SIDE 3:
- Everything Happens to Me [Short Version]
- Mardi Gras
- What a Difference A Day Makes
- For All We Know
- Ill Wind
SIDE 4:
- If I Could Be with You
- I’ve Got the World on a String
- Me ‘N Mabe
- Everything Happens to Me [Long Version]
LP 3
SIDE 5:
- How Long Has This Been Going On
- With a Song in My Heart
- Imagination
- What Is There to Say?
SIDE 6:
- There Is No Greater Love
- All of Me
- Intermezzo
- But Not for Me
- All the Way
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Description
The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions of Ike Quebec collects a phenomenal body of work produced between 1959-’62 by a key player in the Blue Note Story. The saxophonist had recorded a series of 78s for Alfred Lion in the 1940s and also served as a talent scout who encouraged Lion to record important figures of the emerging bebop scene including Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. After a difficult period through the 1950s during which Quebec fell off the scene, Lion reconnected with his friend and began to reintroduce Quebec’s music to jazz fans in 1959 with a series of 45 jukebox singles that were well received and revealed a formidable stylist very much at the top of his game. His full-throated yet utterly relaxed sound was ideally suited to a wide range of material from ballads to blues. The success of Quebec’s comeback inspired Lion to keep going, capturing four sessions of material with a revolving cast of musicians that yielded classic tracks including “A Light Reprieve,” “Blue Monday,” and “What a Difference a Day Makes.” Quebec would also go on to record several album sessions including the timeless soul jazz classics Heavy Soul, Blue & Sentimental, and Bossa Nova Soul Samba, capping a prolific end to a career that would be tragically cut short with his death from lung cancer at age 44 in 1963.
This Blue Note Tone Poet Edition is produced by Joe Harley. The 3-LP vinyl set is all-analog and cut directly from Rudy Van Gelder’s original master tapes by Kevin Gray. Pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, the LPs come packaged in a deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket which includes a booklet with never-before-seen photos by Francis Wolff and an insightful, in-depth essay by scholar Loren Schoenberg.


