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Title: SEXTET SESSION
Review: The Jazz Messengers only recording for Impulse Records is a sextet affair featuring Lee Morgan,Wayne Shorter and Curtis Fuller. Standard tunes are played at various tempos with Lee displaying his prowess on mute as well as open horn. The highlight of the date for me though is the Curtis Fuller original - A La Mode- a real smoker. This front line appears again 3 years later on Art Blakey's final Blue Note session INDESTRUCTIBLE recorded in 1964. In 1962 & 63 it was Freddie Hubbard on trumpet in the classic sextet recording numerous sessions for Blue Note and Riverside records. The Riverside sessions CARAVAN and UGETSU may be a bit easier on the head for some.
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