Illinois Jacquet - Spectrum [original mono vinyl]

Illinois Jacquet - Spectrum - Argo LP 754 - Argo Original Pressing, Grey Label, Mono

Side A:

Illinois Jacquet - Tenor Sax
Buddy Lucas - Tenor Sax
Ernest Royal - Trumpet
James Nottingham - Trumpet
Leonard Gaskin - Bass
Eric Gale - Guitar
Edwin Stoute - Piano
Herbert Lovelle - Drums
Haywood Henry - Baritone Sax
Billy Butler - Guitar

Arranged & Conducted by Bert Keyes

Side B:

Illinois Jacquet - Tenor Sax
Russell Jacquet - Trumpet
Patricia Brown - Piano
George Duvivier - Bass
Grady Tate - Drums
Candido - Conga Drum

Recorded - April 29 & 30, 1965, RCA Recording Studios, New York City

Album Production & Supervision - Esmond Edwards
Engineer - Ray Hall
Cover Photo - Don Bronstein
Cover Design - Michael Reid Design

Released - November 27, 1965

This is a rather underrated and quite unappreciated side by Illinois Jacquet , one of the very last original Argos before the sudden switchover to Cadet which I find myself returning to and listening to more and more these days. Ostensibly a mostly straight ahead side by the legendary tenor man Jacquet, there's a nice melodic groove underpinning the whole LP which is quite appealing. Side A is essentially an abbreviated big band date with nice arrangements of mostly contemporary movie themes, while Side B is a more intimate small group date which is cut in the same melodic groove vein. Excellent fidelity off the original Argo mono deep groove vinyl.

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