Ike Quebec - Bossa Nova Soul Samba
ARTIST.....: Ike Quebec
TITLE......: Bossa Nova Soul Samba
LABEL......: Blue Note
URL........: http://www.bluenote.com/detail.asp?SelectionID=10660
RIP DATE...: Sep-20-2007
STORE DATE.: Aug-28-2007
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 64,5 MB
Track Listing:
01 - loie 03:07
02 - lloro tu despedida 02:59
03 - goin' home 05:40
04 - me 'n you 05:57
05 - liebestraum 03:41
06 - shu shu 03:30
07 - blue samba 05:15
08 - favela 04:00
09 - linda flor 03:27
10 - loie (alternative take) 03:31
11 - shu shu (alternative take) 03:18
12 - favela (alternative take) 03:19
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47:44 min
Release Notes:
Ike Quebec released a string of albums for blue note (for whom he
was an A&R man as well as friend to owner Alfred Lion) during the
early sixties, all of which are fantastic showcases for the
deepest tenor sound this side of Ben Webster. Keeping in mind the
overall greatness of the entire series of these albums the
question becomes, for the Quebec fan who is looking to pick
through his discography or the uninitiated looking for a place to
start, what setting would you prefer to hear him in? If you like
the organ-combo backing go with Heavy Soul and it's companion It
Might as Well Be Spring. If you prefer a more conventional
setting, though done so well as to make it unconventional, than
hear Ike shine on the awe-inspiring Easy Living where Quebec
shares the stage on some tracks with Stanley Turrentine and Bennie
Green, and is backed up by Art Blakey and Sonny Clark. If it's
shortish tracks and goodtime blowing you're in the mood for go
with the excellent Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions . But if it's
space in which to hear Quebec roam you seek, and that relaxed but
vital romanticism that snaked it's way from his tenor, full of
reflective passion and hard-living wisdom embedded in the spite
and grease, than you have two options. One is his acknowledged
masterpiece: Blue and Sentimental , and the other is his last
album, an odd take on the bossa nova craze that Stan Getz helped
to popularize: "Soul Samba". Despite the virtues of the wildly
popular albums that Stan Getz did (Getz/Gilberto, Jazz Samba)
"Soul Samba" is an entirely different bag. So much so that I would
warn bossa nova fans away from this album, this one is firmly
grounded in Jazz with a capital "J". Unlike Stan Getz, who
sublimated himself to the overall ambiance of his bossa nova
albums, Quebec and his tenor are front and center on "Soul Samba",
so much so that I sometimes have to make a conscious effort to
listen to what the other musicians are doing here (with the
exception of Kenny Burrell who makes himself felt through out).
The other big difference between the two albums is whereas the
first was noticibly lacking in anything resembling the blues, this
album is drowning in it. Every note Quebec plays is so thick with
it that could you reach out into the air and cut one it would
bleed a heavy blue. This is a laid back album and it's greatest
virtue is that it showcases The Sound that only Ike could coax
from the tenor, that gravel-voiced wonderful sound. Think of it as
vintage Quebec blue note in the tint of a relaxed Brazilian glow.
It might have been an attempt to popularize Quebec on the back of
the bossa nova craze of the time, but it wouldn't have mattered as
Ike would die a short three months later from cancer. If he was
feeling the effects of his illness here it really doesn't show, or
maybe it does in the voice of his tenor, but if that's the case
then Mr. Quebec wanted to go out on top with a warm life-affirming
romantic note. Highly recommended.
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