Leonard Feather Presents Bop

[Tom 1960]

Ok I'm obviously a big fan of the VSOP/Mode label. I own a decent number of releases. That said, this is another release which I was unaware of till now. Any thoughts on this one? I see Phil Woods, Thad Jones, Idrees Sulieman, Marty Paich, Curley Russell and Art Taylor are on the session.

Edited May 30, 2011 by Tom 1960

[JohnS]

Presumably this is the same as the Interlude lp that was reissued on VSOP plus some extra tracks (by Marty Paich). The bop quintet tracks are nice to have Tom, especially as George Wallington is the pianist but IMO it's not essential.

Edited May 30, 2011 by JohnS

[Joe]

Nice stuff. As with (seemingly) all of the Mode releases from this era, the tracks tend to be rather short; don't expect a tremendous amount of stretching out. IMO, Sulieman sounds particularly good here.

Edited May 30, 2011 by Joe

[Big Beat Steve]

Any George Wallington on record is an asset IMO so I recommend this one too. The music may indeed not be essential and the idea behind it (40s bebop standards given a new - 50s - lease of life) may be "predictable" but the music is fine anyway.

I am not sure about the Interlude reissue that JohnS mentions. The record guides I have access to describe the Interlude reissues (511 and 1011) as straight reissues of this Mode LP. If there are extra Marty Paich tracks they may have come from his two Mode LPs (105 and 110).

[JohnS]

This is the cover of the one have.