Ike Quebec - The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (1959-62) [2CD] (2005)[EAC-FLAC]
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During his comeback years (1959-62) after a decade mostly off the scene, tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded frequently for Blue Note. He started off with a session aimed at the 45 jukebox market and, although he eventually made a few full-length albums for the label, Quebec cut four 45 dates over a two-and-a-half-year period. This double-disc set has all of the jukebox sessions. Most of the 26 selections clock in between four and seven minutes and have long melody statements in addition to concise and soulful solos. Quebec, who was in consistently prime form during his last period, is joined by groups featuring either Skeeter Best or Willie Jones on guitar and Edwin Swanston, Sir Charles Thompson, or Earl Van Dyke on organ. Fun, loose and highly enjoyable music.

Ike Quebec was one of the great tenor saxophonists to emerge from the swing era with a sound and drive that came straight from the early giants of the horn, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster. Like Webster, he had a multi-hued sound, with a thousand gradations from honk to gruff aside to breathy sweetness. A featured soloist with Cab Calloway before slipping into obscurity, Quebec renewed an association with Blue Note in 1959, recording extensively with the label until his death in 1963. His singles are elemental music, much like those of Gene Ammons, and they show Quebec in all his glory, bouncing and wailing on jump tunes like "Zonky," "Mardi Gras" and "Me 'n' Mabe." But his finest moments came on soulful ballads and slow blues, songs like "Blue Monday" and "Everything Happens to Me," when he could embrace a melody with all the dimensions of his sound.


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Tracklist:
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CD 1
01. A Light Reprieve 
02. Buzzard Lope 
03. Blue Monday 
04. Zonky 
05. Later for the Rock 
06. Sweet and Lovely 
07. Dear John 
08. Blue Friday 
09. Everything Happens To Me (short version) 
10. Mardi Gras 
11. What A Diff'rence A Day Makes 
12. For All We Know 
13. Ill Wind 

CD 2 
01. If I Could Be With You 
02. I've Got The World On A String 
03. Me 'n' Mabe 
04. Everything Happens To Me (long version) 
05. All Of Me 
06. Intermezzo 
07. But Not For Me 
08. All The Way 
09. How Long Has This Been Going On 
10. With A Song In My Heart 
11. Imagination 
12. What Is There To Say 
13. There Is No Greater Love

* 2005 Blue Note / Capitol / EMI | 0946 3 11441 2 7 | Connoisseur CD Series24-bit  remaster



Personnel: Ike Quebec: tenor saxophone; Edwin Swanston, Sir Charles Thompson, Earl Van Dyke: organ; Skeeter Best, Willie Jones: guitar; Milt Hinton, Sam Jones, Sonny Wellesley: bass; J.C.Heard, Wilbert Hogan, Les Jenkins: drums.




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