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West Coast Brew: Brew Moore Quartet & Quintet Sessions 1955-1958 (2 LPs on 1 CD)

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24 BIT
DIGITALLY REMASTERED
2 LPs on 1 CD
Lesterian tenor saxophonist Brew Moore (1924-1973) spent much of his career like an archetypal Fifties counterculture icon, always on the move, turning up in New York, or San Francisco, Copenhagen or Stockholm for a year or so, playing beautifully and then disappearing. Unsurprisingly, he left very few recordings, particularly of his early US career, which makes this col- lection, recorded on the West Coast, particularly valuable. Surrounded by capable West Coasters, on The Brew Moore Quintet his Lester Young inspired tenor delivers glorious ballad playing on Fools Rush In , and an affectingly direct I Want a Little Girl . And he swings mightily through I Can t Believe That You re In Love with Me , Tea for Two and Five Planets in Leo . On Brew Moore, made with another Lesterian tenor, Harold Wylie, he remains the star of the show and their evident compatibility enlivens the exchanges on Edison s Lamp , the jaunty Rhode Island Red and Marna Moves . Both albums benefit from accomplished drummers, Gus Gustafson on the first and John Markham on the second.