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4 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

1993 Japanese import CD that I was thrilled to find on my first trip to Chicago’s Jazz Record Mart in 1995. I’d read about Brooks in David Rosenthal’s Hard Bop book and had bought True Blue just a few months before the JRM trip, when Blue Note reissued it on CD in its initial wave of Connoisseur titles. Iirc the CD was $28 (in 1995) and I was living on record-store clerk wages, but I happily and without hesitation bought it. Only got to the JRM one more time after that, but listening to this CD reminds me of what it was like to walk into that store for the first time. 
 

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👌 - as Japanese LP from 1990 on my shelf - "not for sale"

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15 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Discovery DS-833 - Gerald Wilson & The Orchestra Of The 80's " Lomelin" - rec. 1981 - Engineer: Bruce Leek

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That's a good one. All of those 'Orchestra of the 80s' albums for Albert Marx are worth hearing. Will dig out.

The one time I saw Wilson's orchestra on home turf he still had much of this lineup in place. People like Jack Nimitz ('The Admiral') and drummer Mel Lee, plus his son on guitar.

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3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Quite enjoyed it. A bit too much of the compositional tableau and a bit too little actual heat for me. I streamed it. 

Thanks, I'll do likewise. I like his composition so it might be right up my street

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7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

But this one I like, though I must admit I bought it only because of the others, whom I knew, but didn´t know who Tina Brooks was. I think he was even more obscure here in Europe than in his home country. 

I don´t really know his story but it seems that his recording career was very short, and once I read somewhere that Alfred Lion though he liked Brook´s music, didn´t like him as a person. 
 

As I understand it, the first batch of Connoisseur releases were the rarest Blue Note LP titles, with Tina Brooks' "True Blue" likely the rarest of them all. I seem to remember an eBay auction back then where someone paid close to $10,000 for a copy. It's not surprising then, that his name was not well known in Europe because it was not really well known in the US until the Mosaic box.

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9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Thanks. I'll try that.

Two others I like with Ruud Brink:

Ruud Brink - Double Face in Verona

Trio Pim jacobs featuring Ruud Brink - Just Friends 

Sarah  with no vocal "tricks", just straight  singing of good tunes. Also has solos by Thad Jones and Frank Wess. I very much like this album.

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