Subject: Re: Tina Brooks
From: Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 21:45:04 EST
Here I am being nasty and going off topic.
Louis Brooks got me thinking of a favorite 50's jazz
tenor saxophonist of mine: Tina Brooks. He played in
had a nice loping bluesy sound, elements of bop of
course, and was from the Bronx, New York. He recorded
for the great Blue Note Label but was not very well
known, even in New York.
He has one album on Blue Note currently available in
the States: "Back To The Tracks".
He can also be heard on the currently available Kenny
Burrell (guitarist) album "At The Five Spot Cafe" -
it's a nice album.
If you're into this kind of music pick it up. You'll
like it. You may have to special order it at your
average Tower or Virgin supermarket, I mean record
store (Fishers have all experienced the same LCD, or
lowest common denominator, syndrome with book stores).
Borders' jazz CD inventory is surprising sometimes so
you may find it there in the racks.
I could have sworn I'd seen a CD box set of all of his
Blue Note recordings as a leader - either this was not
released after all, or it's gone out of print.
Those of you who live outside the states may find him
on foreign editions of U.S. Blue Note albums that are
not currently available in the States: including:
"Jackie's Bag" (Jackie McLean - alto sax player);
"Open Sesame" (Freddie Hubbard - trumpeter); "Minor
Moves" (Tina Brooks - leader)
"Jackie's Bag" & "Open Sesame" were out in the States
a few years back - they might be found in second hand
CD stores.
OSR: Zooey would probably like him. He may be too
modern for Holden.
Thanks all. My mind made the jump from one name to
another and I got carried away with something I'm
enthusiastic about.
- Ed
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