Charlie Rouse & Julius Watkins - The Complete Jazz Modes Sessions

Cat. no: EJC55752
Format: CD3
Barcode: 8436559468626
Release Date: 19 Nov 2021
Genre: Jazz

Deluxe collectors' digipak presentation with includes 32-page booklet 

The complete recordings by The Jazz Modes, an experimental small jazz formation fronted by Charlie Rouse on tenor sax and Julius Watkins on French horn, plus Gildo Mahones on piano. With slight personnel variations, this group recorded a total of five albums, most of which are now very hard to find. All these albums are included here in their entirety and in chronological order.A member of big bands, among them those of Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington, Charlie Rouse is best remembered for his more than ten years as a member of the Thelonious Monk Quartet.

One of the first and probably the best jazz French horn player, Julius Watkins recorded with numerous jazz greats, including John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Johnny Griffin, Randy Weston, and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.

As a bonus, three further complete albums are included, all of which were originally issued as 10" LPs. Oscar Pettiford's "Oscar Rides Again" is the only other existing album, outside of the Jazz Modes body of work, to feature both Rouse and Watkins in the front line. The two volumes by the Julius Watkins Sextet, on the other hand, present Watkins in the company of other celebrated tenor saxophonists: Frank Foster and Hank Mobley.

Tracks: Dancing On The Ceiling / Legend / Temptation / Episode / Dancing In The Dark / Goodbye / Town And Country / When The Blues Comes On / Blue Modes / You Are Too Beautiful / So Far / Idle Evening / Garden Delights / Strange Tale / Two Songs / Stallion / Baubles, Bangles And Beads / Autumn Leaves / The Golden Chariot 2 / Let S Try / Bohemia / Catch Her / Hoo Tai / Mood In Scarlet / Linda Delia / I Ve Got You Under My Skin / We Can Talk It Over / Standing On The Corner / Joey, Joey, Joey / Warm All Over / Happy To Make Your Acquaintance / My Heart Is So Full Of You / The Most Happy Fella / Don T Cry / Like A Woman / Somebody Somewhere / The Oblong / 1-2-3-4-0 In Syncopation / Blue Flame / Mood In Motion / Knittin / This N That / Glad That I Found You / Princess / Sextette / The Golden Touch / Cable Car / Trictrotism / Edge Of Love / Oscar Rides Again / Linda Delia / Perpetuation / I Have Known / Leete / Garden Delights / Julie Ann / Sparkling Burgundy / B And D / Jordu 

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