[This was recently reposted in another blog but I was quite unhappy as it was one of my earlier inferior mono rip from ages ago- dug up the original vinyl last night for a new true stereo lossless rip- prestontw]
The 'J.F.K' Quintet - Young Ideas - Riverside RLP 9424 - Riverside First Pressing, Black Label, Stereophonic
Ray Codrington - Trumpet
Andy White - Alto Sax
Harry Killgo - Piano
Walter Booker Jr - Bass
Carl 'Mickey' Newman - Drums
Recorded: Plaza Sound Studios, NYC (No date given; 1962?)
Produced by Orin Keepnews
Recording Engineer: Ray Fowler
Album Design: Ken Deardoff
Photos by Steve Shapiro
Released: August 11, 1962
Besides having one of the coolest monikers in Jazz history, The J.F.K Quintet also had a pretty unique sound: part hard bop, part modernist, and almost proto avant garde/'new thing' (particularly on side B). I also detect a strong Coltrane/Ornette influence on sax player, Andy White, who later went on to have a fruitful career as a Coltrane scholar, among his many later achievements. Wonderful, wonderful record, can't recommend it enough. Solid, but average fidelity - Riverside pressings were always subtandard but pretty good though for a 48 (!) year old record.
Heard about it now I can hear IT! Many thanks for sharing and a GREAT blog.
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ReplyDeletewowie zowie! you've done it again! and thanks for sharing it.
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ReplyDeleteThank you so much, great record ! never heard before such an alto player !! great discovering for me, thousand thanks for this wonderful 5tet
but is it normal, the suddenly cut end of the second track "alone together" ? do you have the same (small) problem ?
ReplyDeleteNever heard of these guys - what a discovery. Definitely worthy of rescuing from obscurity.
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Wow, I've been looking for this since forever! Thanks for posting it. I first saw it on a list of top modal jazz tunes and now I can finally check it out.
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Lovely, a big thank you for this JFK.
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ReplyDeleteMany thanks for this rarity! I'm happy to see you digging into what Fantasy never reissued on CD. There are still many 1960s Prestige albums they never got to (several by artists who also recorded for Argo/Cadet by the way), and also a few Riversides. One Riverside I recently suggested on another blog was "Lennie McBrowne - Eastern Lights".
This was the second and last album released by The J.F.K. Quintet, but I have seen it claimed that they recorded a third album that never was released. "Young Ideas" is an excellent album and one can hear that new ideas were in the air - this is not the 50s any longer. At first I thought the initial track sounded silly, but it grew on me, and now I find it quite memorable.
The covers say "stereo" but this is an early rip that it is mono. Do you think that you could redo it in stereo? That could also fix the problem that Bhowani mentioned above with "Alone Together" being cut off before the end.
It's so nice to hear these great players in their early days. Thank you.
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