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Various Artists
Lost Sessions
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B

Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
1. One For Five - Freddie Hubbard/Charlie Rouse/McCoy Tyner/Bob Cranshaw/Billy Higgins
2. The Elder Speaks - Donlad Byrd/Curtis Fuller/Julius Watkins/Sam Rivers/Cecil Payne/Tadd Dameron/Paul Chambers...
3. Bevan Beeps - Donlad Byrd/Curtis Fuller/Julius Watkins/Sam Rivers/Cecil Payne/Tadd Dameron/Paul Chambers...
4. Lament For The Living - Donlad Byrd/Curtis Fuller/Julius Watkins/Sam Rivers/Cecil Payne/Tadd Dameron/Paul Chambers...
5. Aloof Spoof - Donlad Byrd/Curtis Fuller/Julius Watkins/Sam Rivers/Cecil Payne/Tadd Dameron/Paul Chambers...
6. For All We Know - Ike Quebec/Duke Pearson/Israel Crosby/Vernel Fournier
7. I See Your Face Before Me - Ike Quebec/Duke Pearson/Israel Crosby/Vernel Fournier
8. Sweet Slumber - Ike Quebec/Duke Pearson/Israel Crosby/Vernel Fournier
9. Lady Be Good - Sonny Stitt/Dexter Gordon/Don Patterson/Paul Weeden/Billy James
10. Blues On Trial - Ike Quebec/Gene Harris/Andrew Simpkins/Bill Dowdy
11. Cowbell Boogie - Fred Jackson/John Patton/Grant Green/Herbie Lewis/Ben Dixon
12. Don't Even Go There - Melvin Lastie/Stanley Turrentine/Herbie Hancock/Eric Gale/Billy Butler/Bob Cranshaw/Berard Purdie

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Lost Sessions
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Blue Note Records
Original Release Date: 10/19/1999
Release Date: 10/19/1999
Album Type: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B
Styles: Jump Blues, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Modern Postbebop, Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo, Swing Jazz, Bebop, Funk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 724352148424

Synopsis

Amazon.com

This collection features a rare Charlie Rouse recording from 1965 with McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, and Billy Higgins as well as four impeccable arrangements performed by Tadd Dameron in 1961 with an octet featuring Sam Rivers, Donald Byrd, Julius Watkins, Curtis Fuller, and Cecil Payne. Also included is the sole salvageable take from the only Sonny Stitt session Alfred Lion ever produced--a disaster despite the presence of Dexter Gordon. Herbie Hancock's earliest recorded attempt at R&B are also to be found here. These are some of the treasures on The Lost Sessions, a limited-edition collection of footnotes to the history of Blue Note Records assembled by reissue maven Michael Cuscuna in conjunction with the label's 60th anniversary. Cuscuna came across these tracks as he reevaluated ones originally unreleased or rejected while updating the comprehensive Blue Note discography,which he published in 1988. While there's not enough music to make complete albums on their own, these loose ends provide a fascinating peek inside the vaults of one of jazz's most significant and influential record companies. --Mitchell Feldman

CD Reviews

A nice collection of rareities

jazzfanmn | St Cloud, MN United States | 11/29/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This cd is, basically, a collection of outtakes dating from 1961 to 1966. Tracks from sessions including: Tadd Dameron, Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard, Charlie Rouse, McCoy Tyner, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, Dexter Gordon, Ike Quebec, Stanley Turrentine, Grant Green, and Herbie Hancock that did not make it onto album for one reason or another are collected here almost as a footnote to Blue Note's massive reissue catalog. The opening track "One for Five", penned by the underrated tenor, Charlie Rouse is a Highlight. Freddie Hubbard, Rouse, and McCoy Tyner all produce memorable performances. Tracks 2-5 feaure an octet lead by Tadd Dameron, and have been for years some of the most requested of the unreleased tapes in the Blue Note Vaults. The charged "The Elder Speaks", and the lovely, almost haunting, "Lament for the Living" stand out. Another underrated tenor, Ike Quebec, leads two quartets for some solid, swinging hard bop. Sonny Stitt and Dexter Gordon face off for a track lifted from the ashes of a failed session, and Herbie Hancock closes the cd with some of his earliest venturing into R&B. The music here is never really earthshattering, but is consistantly enjoyable. Anyone who is a fan of these artists, of just looking to gobble up all of the jazz from this classic period of Blue Note recordings should pick this cd up, whereas new fans of the music should pick from the hundreds of classic Blue Note albums before purchasing this one."