A killer lost album from the early days of Blue Note – the original 10″ LP! Urbie Green‘s normally a snoozer to us, but this beautiful set of modernist bop tracks has him leading a septet with some other lively young players, including Jimmy Lyon, who we know, and many others who we don’t – like Doug Mettome, John Murtaugh, and Sam Staff. This is killer stuff from the days when the Blue Note image wasn’t so clearly formed as it was in the late 50s – the sound is great – with titles like “Johnbo Mambo”, “La Salle”, and “Incubator”
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Urbie Green
New Faces - New Sounds
Tracks
1 Incubator (Green) 4:43
2 Skylark (Mercer, Carmichael) 3:25
3 La Salle (Murtaugh) 3:30
4 Dansero (Daniels, Heyman) 3:16
5 Stairway To The Stars (Signorelli, Malneck, Parish) 3:01
6 Johnbo Mambo (Murtaugh) 5:07
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Personnel
Doug Mettome - tp & br hrn
Urbie Green - tb
John Murtaugh - ts
Sam Staff - bs
Jimmy Lyon - p
Dante Martucci - b
Jimmy Campbell - dr
Recorded in Hackensack, New Jersey ; December 27, 1953