Red Mitchell - Presenting Red Mitchell (1957) [Reissue 1992]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 102 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Contemporary Records (OJCCD-158-2 (S-7538))
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 245 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 102 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OJC/Contemporary Records (OJCCD-158-2 (S-7538))
Bassist Red Mitchell, who had led two fairly obscure sessions for Bethlehem in 1955, came up with a gem on his lone Contemporary set as a leader. Based in Los Angeles at the time, Mitchell utilized pianist Lorraine Geller and two up-and-coming players: James Clay (who splits his time between tenor and flute) and, in one of his first recording sessions, drummer Billy Higgins. The quartet performs then-recent tunes by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown ("Sandu"), a pair of Mitchell originals, "Scrapple From the Apple" and "Cheek to Cheek." Despite Higgins' and (to a lesser extent) Clay's connections with Ornette Coleman, the music is strictly high-quality modern mainstream bop of the era. Easily recommended to collectors of straight-ahead jazz.