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Best opening track on a Blue Note album


Larry Kart

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19 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Freddie Redd's The Thespian on Shades of Red and Dizzy Reece's The Rake on Star Bright do it for me.

Same here with "The Thespian". Just beautiful the slow version at the beginning and than the boppish romp on those changes......wonderful to play 

 

Here Cool Struttin´the title melody. Just the perfect groove, and maybe the best BN cover photo I ever saw. 

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"Blue Bossa" - Page One
"Funk In A Deep Freeze" - Hank Mobley Quintet
"Falling In Love With Love" - Portrait of Sheila
"The Griots" - Andrew!!!
"Eco" - Right Now!
"Arietis" - Ready For Freddie
"Tune Up" - Newk's Time
"Witch Hunt" - Speak No Evil
"Snowflakes & Sunshine" - At The Golden Circle Vol. 2
"Zoltan" - Unity

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54 minutes ago, colinmce said:

"Blue Bossa" - Page One
"Funk In A Deep Freeze" - Hank Mobley Quintet
"Falling In Love With Love" - Portrait of Sheila
"The Griots" - Andrew!!!
"Eco" - Right Now!
"Arietis" - Ready For Freddie
"Tune Up" - Newk's Time
"Witch Hunt" - Speak No Evil
"Snowflakes & Sunshine" - At The Golden Circle Vol. 2
"Zoltan" - Unity

Great list. Totally agree on "Arietis" — it's quite a fanfare!

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I did not even have to think of it - for me it's most definitely "Refuge" from Andrew Hill's "Point of Departure" (my favorite Blue Note album). The driving dancing cymbals from the get-go, the voicing of the horns on the theme, all the solos (Kenny Dorham!) - just perfect. And unlike anything else on Blue Note.          

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Don't think it's been mentioned, but I have a soft spot for Fuchsia Swing Song on the Sam Rivers album of the same title.

You know right away it's not a run-of-the-mill Blue Note release, and the immediately recognizable Jaki Byard isn't on many Blue Notes.

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On 1/24/2023 at 12:54 AM, Eric said:

Would be fun if we had some poll functionality to determine a winner.  Or perhaps that is over-thinking it.

 

I could organize a small knock-out with all the selected material. You set two tracks against each other and give everybody one day to vote. The winner goes trough to the next round until you have a winner. Would like to organize that but mostly no one participate in these kind of things as most people just do not like to compare tracks (which I could understand of course).

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This is something of an odd concept, in that I believe virtually every great album opens with a killer track. 

Has "Passion Dance" (The Real McCoy) been mentioned?  Must have been.  

I nominate 'Breaking Point" by Freddie Hubbard.

Also "A Night in Tunisia" by Art Blakey.

But one could go on and on with this.

 

   

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