Artist: Jack Sheldon
Album: The Quartet & The Quintet
Genre: Cool Jazz
Label: Pacific Jazz
Released: 1998
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Contour (Drew) - 05:36
- It's Only a Paper Moon (Rose-Harburg-Arlen) - 7:21
- Leroy's Blues (Drew) - 5:58
- Cheek to Cheek (Berlin) - 3:33
- Streets of Madashi (Norris) - 3:08
- Get Out of Town (Porter) - 2:34
- Ah Moore (Cohn) - 3:15
- Dozo (Let's Go) (Norris) - 2:44
- Mad About the Boy (Coward) - 2:55
- Toot Sweet (Pena) - 2:53
- Jack Departs (Norris) - 3:08
- What Is There to Say (Duke) - 3:40
- Groovus Mentus (Sheldon) - 4:00
- Beach-Wise (Whitlock) - 3:14
- Palermo Walk (Whitlock) - 3:19
- Blues (Trad.) - 4:47
- Irresistible You (Raye-DePaul) - 4:01
- Guatemala (Norris) - 3:25
- I'm Getting Sentimental over You (Washington-Bassman) - 3:44
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There is a lot of music on this 1998 CD which has trumpeter Jack Sheldon's first two LP's as a leader plus three selections originally put out on various samplers. Although not as distinctive a soloist as he would become, at this early stage Sheldon was already a technically skilled and creative bop soloist. Sheldon is well-featured on three songs in a quintet with altoist Joe Maini, on eight numbers with a quartet that co-stars pianist Walter Norris and on the remaining eight tunes in a quintet with tenor-saxophonist Zoot Sims and pianist Norris. The music is purely straightahead and fairly spontaneous yet generally concise and serves as an excellent example of both early Jack Sheldon and mid-50's L.A. bop
Review by Scott Yanow