The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions
Ike Quebec
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Release Date: 10/10/2025
'The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions' of Ike Quebec collects a phenomenal body of work produced between 1959-62 by a key player in the Blue Note Story. The saxophonist had recorded for Blue Note and served as a talent scout in the 1940s before personal problems forced him off the scene. Alfred Lion began to reintroduce Quebec's music to jazz fans in 1959 with a series of 45 jukebox singles that were well received and revealed a formidable stylist very much at the top of his game with a full-throated yet relaxed sound ideally suited to a range of material from ballads to blues. The success of Quebec's comeback inspired Lion to keep going, capturing four sessions of material with a revolving cast of musicians that yielded classic tracks.
Disc 1
1: A Light Reprieve
2: Buzzard Lope
3: Blue Monday
4: Zonky
5: Later for the Rock
6: Sweet and Lovely
7: Dear John
8: Blue Friday
Disc 2
1: Everything Happens to Me (Short Version)
2: Mardi Gras
3: What a Difference a Day Makes
3: What a Diff'rence a Day Makes
4: For All We Know
5: Ill Wind
6: If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
7: I've Got the World On a String
8: Me 'N Mabe
9: Everything Happens to Me (Long Version)
Disc 3
1: How Long Has This Been Going On
2: With a Song in My Heart
3: Imagination
4: What Is There to Say?
5: There Is No Greater Love
6: All of Me
7: Intermezzo
8: But Not for Me
9: All the Way