Jazz / Bop; Post-Bop; Mainstream Jazz
Recorded June 26 & 27, 2001 at IRONWOOD STUDIOS, Seattle
Don Lanphere - saxophone
New Stories
Marc Seales - piano
Doug Miller - bass
John Bishop - drums
"...writing notes for a CD - at least for me - involves laying with it, really getting into the music. I don't write about what I don't like but there is always the possibility that with repeated listenings the bloom might come off the rose. 99 and 44/100 % of the time this does not happen. The music invariably sounds as good as when I put it on for the first time. Sometimes it even gets better and Home At Last is one of those times. "Goodbye" has all the ingre- dients to make one sad, and I experienced that tendency on the first go- round but Lanphere's playing is so good that he made me happy. The sadness was still there but the joy overrode it. This one is a masterpiece!"
---Taken from the liner notes by Ira Gitler whose Jazz Masters of the ‘40s has been updated and reissued as The Masters of Bebop (Da Capo) |
