Jazz Supreme – Modal Blue Sketches

barabara sounds sez:  

Jazz Supreme Numero Cinco, and it's yet another cracker – another belting line-up in the tried-and-true vein. It starts out like it means business with the one and only Dave Brubeck, moving on into Duke Pearson and then the wonderful Harold McNair. Then come the heavy hitters: Wayne Shorter, Leon Thomas and Mingus, via Ray Russell and Ahmad Jamal, before sealing the deal with Paul Horn, Dave Pike and Freddie's version of Little Sunflower.

By this stage in the series you could argue there is only one way to go, and compiler Toru Hashimoto is maybe playing it safe in some respects. But, bottom line, there are no no-nos! OK, the world can exist very readily without soft piano trio renderings of Boz Scaggs. But Louis van Dijk really is not a problem. And at least there's no Elliott Smith… 

So here we reach the end of the Jazz Supreme line. Yes, there were actually six in the series. But someone appears to have borrowed/lifted the sixth and final album from me. So, unless someone steps forward and kindly contributes the last one – this is the one we're missing – then that's it.

trax: 

01. Dave Brubeck – Unsquare dance

02. Duke Pearson – The fakir

03. Harold McNair – The hipster

04. Lee Konitz – FIve, four and three

05. Wayne Shorter – Mahjong

06. Dave Grusin – Inez 

07. Leon Thomas – The Creator has a master plan (Peace)  

08. Ray Rusell Quartet – Footprints 

09. Ahmad Jamal – MASH theme (Suicide is pointless) 

10. Charles Mingus – Better git it in your soul

11. The Paul Horn Quintet  – Abstraction

12. The Dave Pike Quartet – Why not

13. Freddie Hubbard – Little sunflower

14. Louis van Dijk Trio – We're all alone