Blue & Sentimental

Blue & Sentimental
Studio album by
Ike Quebec
Released1962
RecordedDecember 16 and 23, 1961
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length39:31 (LP)
50:27 (CD)
LabelBlue Note
BLP 4098
ProducerAlfred Lion
Ike Quebec chronology
It Might as Well Be Spring
(1961) 		Blue & Sentimental
(1962) 		Easy Living
(1962)

Blue & Sentimental is an album by American jazz saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded for Blue Note on December 16 & 23, 1961 and released the following year.[1]

Background

The album features a quartet made up of Quebec (occasionally doubling on piano), guitarist Grant Green, and rhythm section Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones. The album features rare rhythm guitar accompaniment by Green, who was more typically a soloist.[2][3] The original LP release featured six tracks, and two additional titles ("That Old Black Magic" and "It's All Right With Me") were added to CD reissues starting in 1988. The track "Count Every Star" features a different group of backing musicians.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[5]
All About Jazz[6]

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey calls Blue & Sentimental "a superbly sensuous blend of lusty blues swagger and achingly romantic ballads" and "a quiet, sorely underrated masterpiece".[4]

In 2004, critic Richard Cook wrote that the album "might be Quebec's masterpiece".[7]

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) – 7:28
  2. "Minor Impulse" (Quebec) – 6:34
  3. "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) – 7:04

Side 2

  1. "Blues for Charlie" (Grant Green) – 6:48
  2. "Like" (Quebec) – 5:21
  3. "Count Every Star" (Bruno Coquatrix, Sammy Gallop) – 6:16

1988 CD Track listing

  1. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) – 7:28
  2. "Minor Impulse" (Quebec) – 6:34
  3. "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) – 7:04
  4. "Blues for Charlie" (Grant Green) – 6:48
  5. "Like" (Quebec) – 5:21
  6. "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "It's All Right with Me" (Cole Porter) – 6:05 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Count Every Star" (Bruno Coquatrix, Sammy Gallop) – 6:16

Recorded on December 16 (tracks 1-7) and December 23 (track 8), 1961.

Personnel

Musicians

December 16, 1961

December 23, 1961 ("Count Every Star")

Technical personnel

References

  1. ^ Blue Note Records discography accessed October 29, 2010
  2. ^ "To hear [Grant] comp [i.e., play rhythm guitar] behind a soloist you have to check his sideman dates, like Blue and Sentimental by Ike Quebec..." Sharony Andrews Green (1999) Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar, Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard, p. 224
  3. ^ "In place of a keyboard, Grant, quietly comping or soloing in fluid single note style, creates acres of space in which Quebec's rapturous playing can shine." Chris May (2008). "Ike Quebec: Blue & Sentimental", Review for AllAboutJazz.com, April 12, 2008; accessed 01 Jan 2018
  4. ^ a b Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 29, 2010
  5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1186. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ^ May, Chris. "Ike Quebec: Blue & Sentimental". All About Jazz. Retrieved December 31, 2023.
  7. ^ Richard Cook (2004). Blue Note Records: The Biography. Justin, Charles & Company, p. 143