Lenny McBrowne And The 4 Souls - Complete Recordings featuring Gloria Smyth (1960) [2CD] {2010 Fresh Sound 24-bit Remaster}

Lenny McBrowne And The 4 Souls - Complete Recordings featuring Gloria Smyth (1960) [2CD] {2010 Fresh Sound 24-bit Remaster}

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© 2010 Fresh Sound Records / Pacific Jazz / Riverside | FSR-CD 614

Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop

When Lenny McBrowne and the 4 Souls began gigging in Sacramento and San Francisco clubs they were critically hailed as the greatest promise for the future of West Coast jazz. The leader had gained much of his experience working with Harold Land and playing engagements with Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller. His renowned finesse as a drummer was acquired while mastering the subtleties of his mentor, Max Roach. In these sessions for Pacific Jazz and Riverside, he showed he had become one of the top drummers on the jazz scene, and his young musicians—average age 25—swing hard as a unit. Terry Trotter, Don Sleet and Daniel Jackson are here on top of the demands he placed on them. They also gave singer Gloria Smyth strong support in the session she recorded with them, lending distinctive backing to launch the career of this fine young talent. But what stands out here above all is the rare gift of cohesion, thoroughly mastered by Lenny McBrowne and the 4 Souls. tracklist & personnel: CD 1 01. Soul Sisters 02. Invitation 03. Dearly Beloved 04. Lazinka’s Tune 05. Cerise 06. I Married an Angel 07. McBrowne’s Galaxy 08. It Don’t Mean a Thing 09. Sometimes I’m Happy 10. Running Wild 11. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child CD 2 01. Saudi 02. No Consideration 03. I Don’t Know the Melody 04. Like Someone in Love 05. Eastern Lights 06. Even Dozen 07. Tryin’ and Cryin’ 08. Chicago Preferred Sources: CD 1: Tracks #1-7 originally issued in LP as "Lenny McBrowne and the Four Souls" (Pacific Jazz ST-1) Tracks #8-11 taken from the Gloria Smyth album "Like Soul!" (World Pacific Stereo-1293). CD 2: Tracks #1-8 originally issued in LP as "Eastern Lights" (Riverside RS 346). Lenny McBrowne (d), Donald Sleet (tp), Daniel Jackson (ts), Terry Trotter (p), Herbie Lewis (b on CD-1), Jimmy Bond (b on CD-2). Gloria Smyth (vcl on CD-1 #8-11). CD 1, Track #11 features only Gloria Smyth accompanied by Terry Trotter and Herbie Lewis. CD 1, Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, January 2, and March 21 (#8-11), 1960. CD 2, Recorded at United Recording Studios, Hollywood, on October 13, 1960. Sessions supervised by Dick Bock (CD 1) and Orrin Keepnews (CD 2) This compilation produced for CD reissue by Jordi Pujol. 24-Bit Digitally Remastered