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A Proper Introduction to Ike Quebec: Blue Harlem

by: Ike Quebec

Release Date April 05, 2004
It's hard to believe that no one has reviewed this great album. Ike Quebec was one of the best tenors to ever pick up a saxophone. He also pushed Alfred Lion and Blue Note from boogie- woogie to swing and then to the modern sounds of Monk, Powell and James Moody. He was out of the picture for most of the fifties with the jazzman flu but came back again in the late fifties and early sixties to make some wonderful recordings, such as "Heavy Soul", " Blue and Sentimental", " Easy Living" and " It May As Well Be Spring" before dying of cancer in January of 1963 at age forty four.

This terrific album however is about the beginning; the period from 1944 to 1946 when Ike put out one good record after another with some of best musicians ... Read More: