Leo Parker - Rollin' with Leo

Title: Rollin' with Leo Artist: Leo Parker Release Date: 1961 Re-Released On: 2/10/2009 Label: Blue Note, Blue Note Records Duration: 43:12 Album Type(s): Instrumental UPCs: 400000013329, 4988006699380, 5099926514024, 077778409526, 077778409540, 498800669938, 099926514055 Genre: Jazz Styles: Hard Bop, Japanese Traditions, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Complex, Organic, Sophisticated, Cheerful, Confident, Fun, Playful, Relaxed, Stylish, Earthy, Energetic, Joyous, Light, Nocturnal, Rollicking, Warm, Freewheeling, Slick, Greasy, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Smooth Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. The Lion's Roar
2. Bad Girl
3. Rollin' with Leo
4. Music Hall Beat
5. Jumpin' Leo
6. Talkin' the Blues
7. Stuffy
8. Mad Lad Returns

Year Type Label Catalog # 2009 CD Blue Note 2009 CD Blue Note 651402 2004 CD Blue Note 4095 1994 CD Blue Note Records TOCJ-4095 1988 CD Blue Note B2-84095

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Drugs and addictions defined most of Leo Parker's adult life, finally claiming it entirely in February of 1962 when he was only 36 years old. Only months earlier in 1961, in two sessions held on October 12 and October 20, Parker had played his heart out in what would have been his second album for Blue Note Records that year, and it had appeared that the baritone saxophonist was well on his way to a much deserved career comeback. The sessions, however, weren't released until almost 20 years later. Rollin' with Leo, presented here in remastered form, is a wonderful portrait of this unsung but brilliant player, whose huge, sad, but almost impossibly strong tone always felt like it carried the world on its shoulders. The centerpiece of Rollin' with Leo is the fascinating "Talkin' the Blues," which unfolds, nearly themeless, like a late-night conversation, ebbing and flowing exactly the way a conversation does, with Parker's baritone swinging back to gather notes, but always moving and stretching forward, expanding the conversation until it seems like everything that could be said HAS been said. Parker's death was tragic because he had so much more to say, and that makes this fine set all that more of a treasure. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Al Lucas Bass Alfred Lion Producer Amanda Wray Reissue Design Bill Swindell Sax (Tenor) Bob Blumenthal Liner Notes Bob Porter Original Liner Notes Dave Burns Trumpet Francis Wolff Photography, Cover Photo Gordon Jee Reissue Director John "Johnny" Adriano Acea Piano Leo Parker Sax (Baritone), Brass Michael Cuscuna Reissue Producer Purnell Rice Drums Reid Miles Cover Design Rudy Van Gelder Remastering Stan Conover Bass Wilbert G.T. Hogan Drums