Yea great post. Arrangement sounds great - its exactly like the original Clifford Brown Max Roach version. So maybe this tune is a sort of tribute by one great trumpet player to another. Billy Root is underated too. When he was just 22 he played (& really played fantastic) with Clifford on Brown's last recorded session - at Ellis Tolin's Drum Shop In Philly. And to quote the CD liner notes 'Today, he (Root) plays in Las Vegas showbands.' And so I read, did Red Rodney. Thanks a mil 4 the post.
Johnny Griffin and his Chicago sound! Wow, edgy play. The Motor City guests fit right in.
Recorded in New York, 25 FEB 1958. Orig. released on a RIVERSIDE Records vinyl LP.
This tune pops up on an Ira Sullivan album, Nicky’s Tune, but under a different title. The composer, Chicago drummer Wilbur Campbell, even plays in the unit. Fittingly, it’s called Wilbur’s Tune on this 1970 DELMARK Records release of over 20 years after the Christmas Eve 1959 Chicago session. :I:
Red Rodney has to be the most underrated trumpet player of all time. I was very lucky to see him live in the UK.....and what a wonderful performance he gave.
This Duke Jordan tune was the last one cut at a 17 FEB 1959 session; some other tunes on this album were rec’d the day before. Recorded at downtown Philly’s Reco Art Studios, becoming, in AUG ’68, Sigma Sound Studios - a famed studio eventually.
Many returns to this fine post! Thank you. :I:
