Sonny Clark
Cool Struttin' (LP)
LabelBlue NoteGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Insert and obi included.
Two legs, a Manhattan sidewalk, Reid Miles' cropping, and one of the four or five most recognisable jackets in the history of the music. What is inside has held up even better. Sonny Clark convened Art Farmer and Jackie McLean in January 1958 with Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones underneath, and made a hard bop record built almost entirely on feel: medium tempos, blues forms, and a pianist whose touch was so light and so behind the beat that everything he plays sounds like it was decided a half second ago. McLean is acidic, Farmer is warm, and the title track walks for over nine minutes without once running out of ideas.
Japanese Blue Note pressing. This is the record that made Clark a permanent object of devotion in Japan long before anyone in America caught up. Deserves every bit of it.
Release notes
Released in 1976 as part of the [l417238] "Blue Note Jazz" Series. Issued with an Obi and single-sided insert in Japanese. Jackie McLean performs by courtesy of Blenheim Records. 〄 - Japanese Industrial Standard symbol appears in the runouts. Runouts: Stamped
| A1 | Cool Struttin' = クール・ストラッティン | 9:20 | |
| A2 | Blue Minor = ブルー・マイナー | 10:17 | |
| B1 | Sippin' At Bells = シッピン・アット・ベルズ | 8:15 | |
| B2 | Deep Night = ディープ・ナイト | 8:45 |
- Jackie McLean
- Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax]
- Paul Chambers
- Bass
- "Philly" Joe Jones
- Drums
- Nat Hentoff
- Liner Notes [Back Cover]
- Takashi Kubota
- Liner Notes [Insert]
- Sonny Clark
- Piano
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Recorded By [Recording By]
- Art Farmer
- Trumpet
