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Ike Quebec: Blue & Sentimental

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by Chris May
April 12, 2008

Ill health and “personal problems" prevented Ike Quebec (1918-63) from becoming the star he could otherwise have been. The tenor saxophonist straddled 1940s swing-to-bop with as much style as his near contemporary, Dexter Gordon. His warm, weighty, approximately out-of-Coleman Hawkins playing was tailor-made for the hard bop era which followed--but he spent most of the 1950s ...

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Bossa Nova Soul Samba

By Ike Quebec

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Loie; Lloro Tu Despedida; Goin' Home; Me 'n' You; Liebstraum; Shu Shu; Blue Samba; Favela; Linda Fior; Loie (alternate take); Shu Shu (alternate take); Favela (alternate take).

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Ike Quebec: Bossa Nova Soul Samba

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by Chris May
October 4, 2007

This is quite a painful disc to listen to. Not because of the music--which is beautiful--but because of the events surrounding it. Recorded in October 1962, it was to be tenor saxophonist Ike Quebec's final album. Less than four months later he died of lung cancer. This fact rather sticks in the mind like a house ...

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It Might As Well Be Spring

By Ike Quebec

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: It Might As Well Be Spring; A Light Reprieve; Easy-Don't Hurt; Lover Man; Ol' Man River; Willow Weep For Me.

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Ike Quebec: It Might As Well Be Spring

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by Chris May
September 1, 2006

A generation older than the tenor saxophone young Turks who helped define Blue Note during its 1955-65 heyday, Ike Quebec's style was fully formed a decade before the innovations of Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson--and his legacy has been consistently overshadowed as a result. But while Quebec may not have been storming any barricades, ...

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The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions

By Ike Quebec

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD 1: A Light Reprieve; Buzzard Lope; Blue Monday; Zonky; Later For The Rock; Sweet And Lovely; Dear John; Blue Friday; Everything Happens To Me (short version); Mardi Gras; What A Diff'rence A Day Makes; For All We Know; Ill Wind. CD 2: If I Could Be With You; I've Got The World On A String; Me 'N' Mabe; Everything Happens To Me (long version); All Of Me; Intermezzo; But Not For Me; All The Way; How Long Has This Been Going On; With A Song In My Heart; Imagination; What Is There To Say; There Is No Greater Love.

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Ike Quebec: The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions

Read "The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
October 19, 2005

It's hard enough finding any sort of jukebox in a bar these days, and as for one with some jazz on it, you can forget it, at least here in Inglan. But there was a time, in inner city US neighbourhood bars anyway, when both things were commonplace. The last gasp was the early '60s, when ...

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