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Tina Brooks, True Blue [1960] Blue Note

Tina Brooks - tenor sax Freddie Hubbard - trumpet Duke Jordan - piano Sam Jones - bass Art Taylor - drums

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Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame [1960] Blue Note Freddie Hubbard - trumpet Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone McCoy Tyner - piano Sam Jones - bass Clifford Jarvis - drums

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Tina Brooks (June 7, 1932 – August 13, 1974) is best known for his work for Blue Note Records between 1958 and 1961, recording primarily as a side-man with Kenny Burrell, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Freddie Redd, and Jimmy Smith. Around the same period, Brooks was McLean's understudy in The Connection, a play by Jack Gelber with music by Redd, and performed on an album of music from the play on the Felsted Label.

Brooks recorded five sessions of his own for Blue Note (including one jointly with McLean). The first session was recorded on 16 March 1958 at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, and featured promising young trumpeter Lee Morgan alongside seasoned professionals such as Sonny Clark, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. Despite the calibre of the players and the quality of the output, Minor Move was not released for more than two decades, several years after Brooks had died. This started an unfortunate trend, as three of his four other sessions (Street Singer, Back to the Tracks and The Waiting Game) did not appear during his lifetime. The exception was True Blue, a session recorded on 25 June 1960 with Freddie Hubbard, Duke Jordan, Sam Jones and Art Taylor. The release of True Blue coincided with the release of Hubbard's Blue Note debut album, Open Sesame - which also featured Brooks.

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