Tina Brooks ”True Blue”

Tina Brooks

”True Blue”
( LP Blue Note Records, 1960 )
Catalog # BLP 4041
** Also issued on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 28975-2
** Part of Mosaic MR4-106

Tracklisting:
Side One
1. Good Old Soul
2. Up Tight’s Creek
3. Theme for Doris

Side Two
1. True Blue
2. Miss Hazel
3. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You

Personnel:
TINA BROOKS; tenor sax
FREDDIE HUBBARD; trumpet
DUKE JORDAN; piano
SAM JONES; bass
ART TAYLOR; drums

Notes:
Recorded on June 25, 1960 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Review:
With a strong, smooth tone and an amazing flow of fresh ideas every time he soloed, tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks should have been a major jazz artist, but his legacy is confined to a series of dates that he did for Blue Note as a sideman and leader. “True Blue” is the only album under his own name to come out in his lifetime. He and Freddie Hubbard had recorded Hubbard’s “Open Sesame” a week earlier. Based on these two albums alone, Brooks should have been recognized as an important new voice in jazz. The reissue adds to two alternate takes to the original LP.

By Pier