Junior Cook - You Leave Me Breathless

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 66:11
Size: 106,2 MB
Art: Front

( 6:37)  1. Junior's Cook
( 8:17)  2. Envoy
( 9:02)  3. Warm Valley
( 7:22)  4. Sweet Lotus Lips
(10:01)  5. Vierd Blues
(12:09)  6. You Leave Me Breathless
( 6:53)  7. Fiesta Español
( 5:47)  8. Mr. P.C.

Tenor saxophonist Junior Cook's final recording, cut less than two months before his death, finds the veteran hard bop stylist in surprisingly prime form, taking upbeat solos and swinging hard. On this CD, one can really hear the mutual influence that Cook had on Joe Henderson. Trumpeter Valery Ponomarev is also in particularly fine form, and the rhythm section (pianist Mickey Tucker, bassist John Webber and drummer Joe Farnsworth) is somewhat obscure but excellent. Three group originals, Cedar Walton's "Fiesta Espanol" and four standards (including a warm tenor feature on "Warm Valley" and a hard-swinging "Mr. P.C.") comprise what was one of Junior Cook's finest sessions as a leader; he definitely exited on top.~ Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/you-leave-me-breathless-mw0000050689

Personnel: Junior Cook (tenor saxophone); Valery Ponomarov (trumpet); Mickey Tucker (piano); John Webber (bass); Joe Farnsworth (drums).

You Leave Me Breathless

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