The Complete 45 Sessions - 2CD

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions of Ike Quebec collects a phenomenal body of work produced between 1959–62 by a key player in the Blue Note Story. The saxophonist had recorded for Blue Note and served as a talent scout in the 1940s before personal problems forced him off the scene. Alfred Lion began to reintroduce Quebec’s music to jazz fans in 1959 with a series of 45 jukebox singles that were well received and revealed a formidable stylist very much at the top of his game with a full-throated yet relaxed sound ideally suited to a range of material from ballads to blues.

Produced for release by Joe Harley, the 3-LP vinyl set is all-analog and cut directly from Rudy Van Gelder’s original master tapes by Kevin Gray. Pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, the LPs come packaged in a deluxe tip-on trifold jacket which includes a booklet with never-before-seen photos by Francis Wolff and an insightful, in-depth essay by scholar Loren Schoenberg.

LP1 — SIDE A
1.    A Light Reprieve
2.   Buzzard Lope
3.   Blue Monday
4.   Zonky
LP1 — SIDE B
1.    Later For The Rock
2.   Sweet And Lovely
3.   Dear John
4.   Blue Friday

LP2 — SIDE A
1.    Everything Happens To Me [Short Version]
2.   Mardi Gras
3.   What A Difference A Day Makes
4.   For All We Know
5.   Ill Wind

LP2 — SIDE B
1.    If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
2.   I've Got The World On A String
3.   Me 'N Mabe
4.   Everything Happens To Me [Long Version]
 
LP3 — SIDE A
1.    How Long Has This Been Going On
2.   With A Song In My Heart
3.   Imagination
4.   What Is There To Say?

LP3 — SIDE B
1.    There Is No Greater Love
2.   All Of Me
3.   Intermezzo
4.   But Not For Me
5.   All The Way