Artist: 
Ike Quebec

Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions

2CD with 36pp Booklet
€18,99

Release date: 10 October 2025

Article Number: 517584000

These days, it's almost forgotten that jazz recordings also appeared on 45 rpm singles in the last century, not least to fill popular jukeboxes. This 2-CD set collects all the singles with which tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec celebrated a resounding comeback on Blue Note Records starting in 1959. With these singles, Quebec built on his successes of the mid-1940s, when he earned a reputation at Blue Note as the "King of Jukebox Hits." Remastered by Kevin Gray from Rudy Van Gelder's original tapes, this 2-CD set in jewel case includes a 36-page booklet with previously unpublished photos by Francis Wolff and an extensive essay by Loren Schoenberg.

Tracklisting:
CD1
1.    A Light Reprieve
2.    Buzzard Lope
3.    Blue Monday
4.    Zonky
5.    Later For The Rock
6.    Sweet And Lovely
7.    Dear John
8.    Blue Friday    
9.    Everything Happens To Me [Short Version]
10.    Mardi Gras
11.    What A Difference A Day Makes
12.    For All We Know
13.    Ill Wind

CD2
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]
5.    How Long Has This Been Going On
6.    With A Song In My Heart
7.    Imagination
8.    What Is There To Say?
9.    There Is No Greater Love
10.    All Of Me
11.    Intermezzo
12.    But Not For Me
13.    All The Way    

IKE QUEBEC, tenor sax / EDWIN SWANSTON, SIR CHARLES THOMPSON, EARL VAN DYKE, organ / CLIFTON ‘SKEETER’ BEST, WILLIE JONES, guitar / CHARLES ‘SONNY’ WELLESLEY, MILT HINTON,  SAM JONES, bass / LES JENKINS, J.C. HEARD, WILBERT HOGAN drums 

Recorded 1959–1962