Audiophile - Ike Quebec - “It Might as Well Be Spring"

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Ike Quebec - “It Might As Well Be Spring”

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Label:             Analogue Productions

Genre:             Jazz

Product No.:   ABNJ 84105

Format:          45 RPM Vinyl LP

No. of Discs:   2

Series:             Blue Note Jazz Reissue

Serial No.:      22

Two weeks after Ike Quebec recorded his comeback album Heavy Soul for Blue Note, he was back at the Van Gelder Studio with the same band (Freddie Roach, Milt Hinton and Al Harewood), making a second album. The confidence paid off because It Might As Well Be Spring is every bit the classic the first album proved to be. Quebec's big-toned, vulnerable tenor playing is a thing to behold, as his heart-stopping version of the title tune, "Lover Man" and "Willow Weep For Me" attest. "Easy – Don't Hurt" is one of his blues masterpieces.

"…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad Kassem has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud." – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, April 2008

Al Harewood, drums

Milt Hinton, bass

Ike Quebec, sax (tenor)

Freddie Roach, organ

Tracks:

                        It Might as Well Be Spring

                        A Light Reprieve

                        Easy - Don't Hurt

                        Lover Man

                        Ol' Man River

                        Willow Weep for Me

This item is from the collection of my son, who passed away in December. He was a serious collector and audiophile who was highly respected in the audio world and took scrupulous care of his collection.

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