The infamous Pee Wee Marquette.
If anyone knows if the Letterman interview with him (Feb 06, 1985) is available anywhere I'd be interested to buy a copy - I can't find it though.
Clifford Brown was an extension of Fats Navarro in style as well as having an early demise. Lee Morgan was an extension of Clifford. He had an early death also!!! Coincidence? Check them all out!
A lot of people talk about Clifford on this album and he’s magnificent as he almost always was, but Lou Donaldson was on fire throughout and it’s nice to hear his older more Bebop inspired approach, he was the most soulful of the original
Bird disciples and he later career would prove that. Horace Silver at this time was so consistent and at home in this setting. The rhythm section with Russell and Blakey as well as Silver just cooks. My point being let’s mention the other musicians as well as Brownie. All legends all on fire. Blakey’s drums the very definition of
I always preferred Volume 2. Those albums are the best, and are a complete road-map to Hard Bop followed by a generation of musicians to come. A dozen years ago, I heard Lou at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago with his working group with Dr. Lonnie Smith and Randy Johnston. I noticed Lou was signing autographs between sets, so I went out to my car to get Volume 2 (always in my trunk). You should have seen Lou's eyes bug out when I handed him a 1954 recording to sign!