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Gheorghe · March 15, 2023

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Interesting ! I knew "The Quota" from a Red Garland LP on which Jimmy Heath is playing. Some guy had it, it must have been in the 70´s, we knew Garland from those early Miles LPs. I like Jimmy Heath´s compositions. That´s how I remember him best. It´s interesting there are quite a few saxophone players whom I associate more as composers, like Jimmy Heath, Gigi Grice, Benny Golson. I don´t think so much about their playing, I think there tunes....

sidewinder · March 15, 2023

13 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Interesting ! I knew "The Quota" from a Red Garland LP on which Jimmy Heath is playing. Some guy had it, it must have been in the 70´s, we knew Garland from those early Miles LPs. I like Jimmy Heath´s compositions. That´s how I remember him best. It´s interesting there are quite a few saxophone players whom I associate more as composers, like Jimmy Heath, Gigi Grice, Benny Golson. I don´t think so much about their playing, I think there tunes....

Thanks to BillF, once again, for this CD. Heath had a great talent for small band arranging which sounds much bigger than it is - shrewd use of players such as Julius Watkins. Without exception, his albums swing like crazy too. All of the Riversides by him are good and he certainly belongs with Grice, Golson etc. in that pantheon.

Heath’s tunes were also popular with British hard boppers in the 1960s, rightly so.

That Garland LP is on MPS, as I recall. Don’t have it but do have ‘Auf Wiedersehen’.

More Jimmy..

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optatio · March 15, 2023

EKE BBB · March 15, 2023

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Gheorghe · March 15, 2023

32 minutes ago, optatio said:

On the trail, that´s a nice blowing vehicle. I also have it played by Wynton Kelly, with George Coleman on tenor.

But my favourite version is Jackie McLean at Montmatre. I love his sound so much. The tune doesn´t have many chords, so you anyway get a bit more a "modal" feeling into it.