The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions AAPB092-45 Jacki Byard (piano)

Jacki Byard (piano)

and Marty Morell

with different guest artists joining across the session

Both Danny Glover and Rhodessa Jones lent their distinctive voices to a series of powerfulspoken-word musical tone poems

spearheaded by Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions AAPB092-45 Jacki Byard (piano)The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions gathers the remarkable recordings made by Ike Quebec between 1959 and 1962. Having first worked with Blue Note in the 1940s as both a recording artist and talent scout, Quebecs career was interrupted by personal struggles before he was reintroduced to listeners through a run of 45rpm singles in 1959. These sides revealed a saxophonist in peak form, his rich, unhurried tone perfectly suited to ballads, blues, and hard