MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORDS M mint
COVER Standard
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Mono
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE --
Wendell Marshall - bass
Ed Thigpen - drums
Freddie Green - drums
Hank Jones - piano
Wynton Kelly - piano
Charlie Rouse - tenor sax
Paul Quinichette - tenor sax
the chase is on - 3:15
when the blues come on - 5:46
this can't be love - 5:22
last time for love - 4:27
you're cheating yourself - 5:14
knittin' - 6:17
tender trap - 4:22
the things i love - 3:22
The twin tenor sax tradition yielded grand pairings with the likes of Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon, Arnett Cobb and Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and Al Cohn and Zoot Sims
This one-shot teaming of Charlie Rouse and Paul Quinichette brought forth a union of two distinctly different mannerisms within the mainstream jazz continuum
Rouse, who would go on to prolific work with Thelonious Monk and was at this time working with French horn icon Julius Watkins, developed a fluid signature sound that came out of the more strident and chatty style heard here
By this time in 1957, Quinichette, nicknamed the Vice Prez for his similar approach to Lester Young, was well established in the short term with Count Basie
His liquid, full-bodied, soulful tone became an undeniable force, albeit briefly, before he dropped out of the scene shortly after this date to be an electrical engineer
The stereo split of the saxophonists in opposite channels, a technique endemic of the time, works well whether they play solos or melody lines together
It enables you to truly hear how different they are
Working with standards, there's a tendency for them to play the head arrangements in unison, but then one of them on occasion plays an off-the-cuff short phrase that strays from the established melodic path
They also seem to do a hard bop jam, then a ballad, and back to hard swinging
The title track is simply a killer, a perfect fun romp of battling duelists, and one that you'd like to hear in any nightclub setting
Some slight harmonic inserts set "This Can't Be Love" apart from the original and "The Things I Love" displays the two tenors at their conversational best, while the lone original, "Knittin'", is a fundamental 12-bar swing blues, straight up and simple but with some subtle harmonic nuances
The rhythm section of pianist Wynton Kelly, bass player Wendell Marshall, and drummer Ed Thigpen do their usual yeoman job
But on two tracks, pianist Hank Jones and rhythm guitarist Freddie Green take over, and the sound of the band changes dramatically to the more sensitive side on a low-down version of "When The Blues Come On" and the good-old basic vintage swinger "You're Cheating Yourself"
The combination of Rouse and Quinichette was a very satisfactory coupling of two talented and promising post-swing to bop individualists, who played to all of their strengths and differences on this worthy -- and now legendary -- session
RECORDING August 29 1957 and September 8 1957 in New York City
ENGINEERING --
LABEL Bethlehem
RE MASTERING Ray Staff
RE RELEASED July 2013
AVERAGE RATING 4 Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas Germany
MADE IN Germany / England
STYLE Jazz / Post Bop / Smooth Jazz
AVAILABLE as long as inventory
