- Artist:
- Ike Quebec
Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions
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Release date: 10 October 2025
Article Number: 517583000
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 strictly limited special edition of the Blue Note Tone Poet series brings together, on three LPs, 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." As always with the Tone Poet series, the three-LP set was produced by Joe Harley and cut entirely by analog by Kevin Gray, directly from Rudy Van Gelder's original master tapes. Pressed on 180g vinyl by RTI, the LPs are packaged in a luxurious triple gatefold sleeve, which also includes a booklet with previously unpublished photos by Francis Wolff and an extensive essay by Loren Schoenberg.
Tracklisting:
LP1
A1. A Light Reprieve
A2. Buzzard Lope
A3. Blue Monday
A4. Zonky
B1. Later For The Rock
B2. Sweet And Lovely
B3. Dear John
B4. Blue Friday
LP2
A1. Everything Happens To Me [Short Version]
A2. Mardi Gras
A3. What A Difference A Day Makes
A4. For All We Know
A5. Ill Wind
B1. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
B2. I've Got The World On A String
B3. Me 'N Mabe
B4. Everything Happens To Me [Long Version]
LP3
A1. How Long Has This Been Going On
A2. With A Song In My Heart
A3. Imagination
A4. What Is There To Say?
B1. There Is No Greater Love
B2. All Of Me
B3. Intermezzo
B4. But Not For Me
B5. 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
