Ike Quebec The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions Tone Poet Vinyl LP 2025

1. A Light Reprieve
2. Buzzard Lope
3. Blue Monday
4. Zonky
5. Later For The Rock
6. Sweet And Lovely
7. Dear John
8. Blue Friday
9. Everything Happens To Me [Short Version]
10. Mardi Gras
11. What A Difference A Day Makes
12. For All We Know
13. Ill Wind
14. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
15. I've Got The World On A String
16. Me 'N Mabe
17. Everything Happens To Me [Long Version]
18. How Long Has This Been Going On
19. With A Song In My Heart
20. Imagination
21. What Is There To Say?
22. There Is No Greater Love
23. All Of Me
24. Intermezzo
25. But Not For Me
26. All The Way

The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions of Ike Quebec collects a phenomenal body of work produced between 1959–62 by a key player in the Blue Note Story. The saxophonist had recorded for Blue Note and served as a talent scout in the 1940s before personal problems forced him off the scene. Alfred Lion began to reintroduce Quebec’s music to jazz fans in 1959 with a series of 45 jukebox singles that were well received and revealed a formidable stylist very much at the top of his game with a full-throated yet relaxed sound ideally suited to a range of material from ballads to blues. The success of Quebec’s comeback inspired Lion to keep going, capturing four sessions of material with a revolving cast of musicians that yielded classic tracks.