Blue & Sentimental

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Blue & Sentimental
Blue & Sentimental (Ike Quebec album).jpg
Studio album by Ike Quebec
Released June 1963[1]
Recorded December 16 and 23, 1961
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
Genre Jazz
Length 39:31 original LP
50:27 CD reissue
Label Blue Note
BST 84098
Producer Alfred Lion
Ike Quebec chronology
It Might as Well Be Spring
(1961)It Might as Well Be Spring1961
Blue & Sentimental
(1961)
Easy Living
(1962)Easy Living1962

Blue & Sentimental is an album by American saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 5/5 stars[3]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 5 stars and calling it "a superbly sensuous blend of lusty blues swagger and achingly romantic ballads... a quiet, sorely underrated masterpiece".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) - 7:28
  2. "Minor Impulse" (Quebec) - 6:34
  3. "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) - 7:04
  4. "Blues for Charlie" (Green) - 6:48
  5. "Like" (Quebec) - 5:21
  6. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "It's All Right With Me" (Porter) - 6:05 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Count Every Star" (Bruno Coquatrix, Sammy Gallop) - 6:16

Recorded on December 16 (tracks 1-7) and December 23 (track 8), 1961.

Personnel

References

  1. Billboard June 22, 1963
  2. Blue Note Records discography accessed October 29, 2010
  3. 3.0 3.1 Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 29, 2010