Clea Bradford With Oliver Nelson And Clark Terry [Prestige New Jazz 8320]

Clea Bradford with Oliver Nelson & Clark Terry - Prestige New Jazz NJ 8320 - Blue Trident Label, Mono

Clea Bradford - Vocals
Oliver Nelson - Tenor Sax
Clark Terry - Trumpet
Patti Bown - Piano
Chauncey "Lord" Westbrook- Guitar
George Duvivier - Bass
Bill English - Drums

Recorded - [not listed on sleeve, but according to major Prestige discographies, Wednesday, June 21, 1961, Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ - Ron Carter cut 'Where' for Prestige the day before, Tuesday, June 20 - Jimmy Smith cut a rejected session for Blue Note the day after, Thursday, June 22 ]

Supervision - Esmond Edwards
Recording - Rudy Van Gelder ['RVG' is in the dead wax]
Cover Design/Photo - Don Schlitten

Released - 1965?

Here's another amazing Prestige find from my collection - Clea Bradford with Oliver Nelson and Clark Terry! This is a New Jazz/Prestige Blue Trident reissue of Clea Bradford - These Dues - [Tru-Sound TRU 15005, already deleted by Fall 1963 according to my vintage Prestige Numerial Dealer Form] on Prestige's short lived R&B subsidiary. So not sure if this is an authentic Prestige/New Jazz date per se, but it's in the catalog for those Prestige completists/fanatics.

Bradford (short biography)  would later resurface with a 1968 side on Cadet and a monster cult Soul single of 'My Love's a Monster', but this is a very much low key and lost mainstream jazz vocal date accompanied by  jazz legends Nelson and Terry. Bradford sounds very similar to Lorez Alexandria to my ears... intriguing.