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Perry Robinson, by then a 21-year old young musician, arrived to Spain in November 1959 and joined Jon Mayer, Chuck Israels and Arnie Wise to form the New Blues Quartet. After some unsuccesful gigs, he met Tete Montoliu on January 2, 1960 and jammed with him and his quartet (by then composed by Vicho Vicencio on tenor, Antonio Vidal on bass and Luis Sangareau on drums). Tete liked his playing and, knowing that Perry's mates were going back to the United States in a few days, he offered him to join his group, expanding it to a quintet. Perry would stay with Tete for almost one year a half, touring Spain -amidst longer stays in the Whisky Jazz in Madrid and the Jamboree in Barcelona- and also doing gigs in Portugal. A few Robinson compositions were included in the repertory, among them "Mingus Pingus" and, later, "Margareta". A concert at the American Air Force Base in Tarrasa was taped. Perry recalls hearing the tape afterwards and it sounded good. Sadly, no trace of this tape has been found after thorough research by Jordi Pujol. To my knowledge, this might be the only recorded evidence of how this quintet sounded like. I have gathered sort of a small collection of anecdotes from this period. I will bring a couple of them here if time allows...

The René Thomas Modern Group (Polydor, 1956)

Ted Curson ‎– Plenty Of Horn (Old Town Records, 1961)

Still on my to-buy list!

Yusef Lateef ‎– Into Something (New Jazz, 1961)

Wade Legge Trio (Modern Music, Vogue, Savoy, Epic / FSR, 1953-55) Fresh Sound Records compilation from the following sources:

The Hodes has: https://www.jazzology.com/item_detail.php?id=ACD-66

Eagerly waiting to check if there is fresh new info on Dexter’s collaborations with Tete. In fact, I provided Maxine with tons of press articles and memorabilia many moons ago... I’m sure she will have made good use of them!

Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (From The Underground) (Columbia, 1985)

Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (Bethlehem, 1956)

Joe Venuti & Earl Hines ‎– Hot Sonatas (Chiaroscuro, 1976)

Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove ‎– Directions In Music - Live At Massey Hall (Verve, 2001)

Henri Texier Quartet Invite/Invites Joe Lovano ‎– Paris-Batignolles (Label Bleu, 1986)

Gene Ammons All Stars ‎– Jammin' With Gene (Prestige, 1956)

Freddie Roach ‎– Good Move! (Blue Note, 1963)

Frank Foster ‎– Basie Is Our Boss (Argo, 1963)

Eric Dolphy ‎– Here And There (Prestige, 1960-61)

Miles Davis + 19. Orchestra under the direction of Gil Evans - Miles Ahead (Columbia, 1957) Second cover:

Ed Thigpen ‎– Out Of The Storm (Verve, 1966) Cielito lindo!

Duke Pearson ‎– Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note, 1966)

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis With Paul Gonsalves ‎– Love Calls (RCA Victor, 1968)

Dexter Gordon ‎– Great Encounters (Columbia, 1978) with Johnny Griffin, Woody Shaw, Curtis Fuller.

Butch Thompson & Hal Smith ‎– Echoes From Storyville, Volume One (Stomp Off)

Bobby Jaspar ‎– Phenil Isopropil Amine (Barclay/EmArcy, 1958)

Pepper Adams ‎– Plays The Compositions Of Charlie Mingus (Workshop Jazz, 1963), FSR reissue