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Don Wilkerson - The Complete Blue Note Sessions (1962-63) [2CD] {2001 BN Connoisseur CD Series}
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© 2001 Blue Note / Capitol | 7243 5 24555 2 2 | 24-bit remaster
Jazz / Hard Bop / Saxophone Jazz / Guitar Jazz

HE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE SESSIONS contains the previously released albums PREACH BROTHER (84107), ELDER DON (84121), and SHOUTIN' (84145). Includes liner notes by Dudley Williams, Joe Goldberg and Robert Levin. This is part of the Blue Note Limited Edition Connoisseur series. Don Wilkerson may not attract much attention – either now or when he was recording in the early '60s – but he was an interesting character. Like many tenor saxophonists of his era, the Texan followed in the hard-swinging soul-jazz that grew out of hard bop, but he didn't settle into an easy groove – he drove his music hard, injecting it with a healthy dose of the blues and an undercurrent of nascent black power. An intriguing mix, to be sure, and on three albums for Blue Note between 1962 and 1963 – Elder Don, Preach, Brother!, Shoutin' – he was at his peak, and they're all included here on this double-disc The Complete Blue Note Sessions.

Jacky Terrasson - Push (2010) {Concord}
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© 2010 Concord Jazz | 0888072316409
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano

There are three qualities about pianist Jacky Terrasson's music that make it irresistible and riveting. The first is that it dances interminably. Secondly, it is jagged and angular—an epithet often used to describe the music of Thelonious Monk and which suits Terrasson well as, even with his singularly distinctive voice, he is genealogically connected. Finally, Terrasson has a penchant for a playful, almost puckish, interpretation, where humor is implicit. As such he negotiates all melodies, even those that are contemplative, with sparkling and almost child-like candor. Above all, of course, Terrasson plays piano with devastatingly beautiful expression, sublime technique and incomparable virtuosity.

Roy Greenford escapes from prison and is aided by a Mexican peasant named Cosorito who works in the gold mines. Roy quickly learns that the peasants are used as pawns for Redfield and his two leery partners, Newman and Lawrence to extract the gold. When the workers attempt to sell their gold for cash, they are cheated by Redfield's bankers. Some of the peasants try to escape to Tucson to sell their gold there, but are killed by bandits lurking in the mountains. These bandits are also under the employ of Redfield.