Ike Quebec - The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions - Tone Poet LP

180g 3LP, Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series, All-Analog

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions collects a phenomenal body of work that saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded between 1959 and 1962. After a difficult stretch through the 1950s, Quebec—a key Blue Note talent scout who had championed Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell—reconnected with Alfred Lion, who began reintroducing his music through a series of 45 jukebox singles. His full-throated yet relaxed sound was ideally suited to everything from ballads to blues, yielding classics like "A Light Reprieve," "Blue Monday," and "What a Difference a Day Makes" before his career was tragically cut short by his death in 1963. This Tone Poet Edition is produced by Joe Harley, all-analog, cut directly from Rudy Van Gelder's original master tapes by Kevin Gray, and pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI in a deluxe tip-on trifold jacket with a booklet of never-before-seen Francis Wolff photos.

Features

• 180g Vinyl 3LP
• Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series
• All-Analog
• Cut Directly from Rudy Van Gelder's Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray
• Produced by Joe Harley
• Pressed at RTI
• Deluxe Tip-On Trifold Jacket
• Booklet with Never-Before-Seen Photos by Francis Wolff & Essay by Loren Schoenberg
• Label: Blue Note

Track Listing

LP 1, Side 1:

1. A Light Reprieve
2. Buzzard Lope
3. Blue Monday
4. Zonky

LP 1, Side 2:

1. Later for the Rock
2. Sweet and Lovely
3. Dear John
4. Blue Friday

LP 2, Side 3:

1. Everything Happens to Me [Short Version]
2. Mardi Gras
3. What a Difference A Day Makes
4. For All We Know
5. Ill Wind

LP 2, Side 4:

1. If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)
2. I've Got the World on a String
3. Me 'N Mabe
4. Everything Happens to Me [Long Version]

LP 3, Side 5:

1. How Long Has This Been Going On
2. With A Song in My Heart
3. Imagination
4. What Is There to Say?

LP 3, Side 6:

1. There Is No Greater Love
2. All of Me
3. Intermezzo
4. But Not for Me
5. All the Way