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Title: Major "Asia Minor"
Review: Trumpeter Dizzy Reece was best known for a couple of Blue Note albums that have become highly sought after collectables over the years. "Asia Minor" comes a few years after those discs (in 1962, and for Prestige's New Jazz label), and features an amazing sextet of Reece, Cecil Payne, Joe Farrell, Hank Jones, Ron Carter and Charlie Persip. The group tackles three Reece originals, one by Payne, and two standards -- "The Story of Love" and Gershwin's famous "Summertime." Even though it is a slight notch below the Blue Notes in my opinion, "Asia Minor" will probably become just as prized by collectors now that it too is going out-of-print.
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