Genre: Jazz
Label: Blue Note
Size: 12"
Format: 33RPM,

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Ike Quebec Heavy Soul (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) 180g LP

Ike Quebec

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SKU:
UNILP23396
UPC:
602455233967
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Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series!
All-Analog 180g Viny LP!
Mastered by Kevin Gray from Original Analog Tapes!
Pressed at Optimal!

There may not be a more apropos album title in all of recorded music than tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's 1961 classic Heavy Soul. The session marked a comeback for a crucial player in Blue Note history. Quebec 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, Lion began to reintroduce Quebec's music to jazz fans in 1959 with a series of 45 jukebox singles that were well received and inspired Lion to put the saxophonist back into the studio for a full album session. So, in November 1961 Quebec brought a four-piece band into Van Gelder Studio that included Freddie Roach on organ, Milt Hinton on bass, and Al Harewood on drums. The resulting eight-song set is a soul jazz masterclass with Quebec's robust tenor conjuring a variety of moods from the rhythmic drive of swinging originals like "Acquitted" and "Que's Dilemma" to slow-tempo stunners including "Just One More Chance," "Brother Can You Spare a Dime," and "I Want a Little Girl." A remarkable reading of "The Man I Love" leads into the sultry title piece, which practically drips with soul, but it's the album closer which delivers a showstopper. With Roach and Harewood laying out Quebec and Hinton converse in a duo setting on a spellbinding performance of "Nature Boy" that reverberates in the listener's soul long after the last note has faded.

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Thick-toned tenor Ike Quebec is in excellent form...His ballad statements are quite warm, and he swings nicely on a variety of medium-tempo material.
-Scott Yanow, AllMusic.com, 4/5 stars

Features

  • Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series
  • 180g Vinyl LP
  • All-Analog Pressing
  • Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from Original Analog Tapes
  • Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Musicians

Ike Quebec tenor sax
Freddie Roach organ
Milt Hinton bass
Al Harewood drums

Selections

Side I:

  1. Acquitted
  2. Just One More Chance
  3. Que's Dilemma
  4. Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Side II:

  1. The Man I Love
  2. Heavy Soul
  3. I Want a Little Girl
  4. Nature Boy

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