Unreleased Ike Quebec 1962 Blue Note sessions

[Kyo]

Ike Quebec Quintet

Ike Quebec (ts) Freddie Roach (org) Grant Green (g) Butch Warren (b) Wilbert Hogan (d)

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 25, 1962

Sonny Boy Blue Note rejected

Take Your Shoes Off -

Cop 'N Blo -

Early Morning Shuffle -

Travelin' -

Born To Be Blue -

Throwing A Brick -

Ike Quebec Quintet

Ike Quebec (ts) Freddie Roach (org) Grant Green (g) Butch Warren (b) Wilbert Hogan (d)

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 1, 1962

tk.8 Take Your Shoes Off Blue Note rejected

tk.13 Cop 'N Blo -

tk.20 Sonny Boy -

tk.32 Throwing A Brick -

tk.40 Early Morning Shuffle -

tk.44 Travelin' -

Almost identical song selection, so someone obviously wasn't satisfied with the first

session. It's interesting that despite that the band didn't change at all between the

two recording dates. I wonder if this might become a Connoisseur disc in the future...

[brownie]

I'ld buy that one right away!

Rejected or not...

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Grant Green plays pretty good but Ike has played better. He sounds tired. When I heard these tunes in Cuscuna's office, he was looking for stuff for the "lost sessions" Connoisseur CD. He deemed these not worthy for release.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I'd have thought that, with two sessions in the can, the reason Alfred Lion wouldn't have issued it, even the best bits of the two sessions, was truly because the sessions didn't make it.

A pity, but shit happens.

MG

[Kyo]

Speaking of "lost" Ike Quebec sessions, I wonder why the two good tracks from this session didn't make the "Complete 45 sessions" two-fer. Was it just lack of space? I don't have that "Complete" 2CD set yet so I wouldn't know the running times.

Ike Quebec (ts) Edwin Swanston (org) Clifton "Skeeter" Best (g) Charles "Sonny" Wellesley (b) Les Jenkins (d)

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 20, 1959

tk.8 Uptight Blue Note (J) TOCJ 66083

tk.12 Cry Me A River -

Latin Strain (inc.) rejected

* Ike Quebec - From Hackensack To Englewood (Blue Note (J) TOCJ 66083)

[mjzee]

Speaking of "lost" Ike Quebec sessions, I wonder why the two good tracks from this session didn't make the "Complete 45 sessions" two-fer. Was it just lack of space? I don't have that "Complete" 2CD set yet so I wouldn't know the running times.

Ike Quebec (ts) Edwin Swanston (org) Clifton "Skeeter" Best (g) Charles "Sonny" Wellesley (b) Les Jenkins (d)

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 20, 1959

tk.8 Uptight Blue Note (J) TOCJ 66083

tk.12 Cry Me A River -

Latin Strain (inc.) rejected

* Ike Quebec - From Hackensack To Englewood (Blue Note (J) TOCJ 66083)

It could also include the 3 tracks left off the Bennie Green Mosaic Select that contained the rest of the "Congo Lament" session.

[Kyo]

It could also include the 3 tracks left off the Bennie Green Mosaic Select that contained the rest of the "Congo Lament" session.

Those were issued along with the other Congo Lament tracks as "Easy Living" unless I'm confusing some things here.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

It could also include the 3 tracks left off the Bennie Green Mosaic Select that contained the rest of the "Congo Lament" session.

Those were issued along with the other Congo Lament tracks as "Easy Living" unless I'm confusing some things here.

That's correct. The CD issue contains all the tracks, with and without Green/Turrentine. And it's very nice indeed.

MG