Minor Move

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Minor Move
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Studio album by
Released1980
RecordedMarch 16, 1958
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length40:38
Label Blue Note
GXF 3072 (1980)
Blue Note 22671 (2000)
Producer Alfred Lion
Tina Brooks chronology
Minor Move
(1980)
True Blue
(1960)
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Original 1980 LP
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Minor Move is an album by American hard bop tenor Tina Brooks. It features performances by Brooks, Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. It was recorded on March 16, 1958, and was the first album Brooks recorded as a leader for the Blue Note label. The album, however, remained unreleased until being issued in Japan in 1980 (Blue Note GXF 3072). In 2000, Minor Move was released on CD. The composition "Nutville" (not to be confused with the fast-paced Latin composition of the same name by Horace Silver) is sometimes credited to Lee Morgan, but as producer Michael Cuscuna explains in the liner notes to the 2000 release: "Lee brought the tune to the session, but never claimed credit for it. Curtis Fuller also confirms that it was indeed a Tina Brooks original." [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Nutville" (Brooks) - 8:52
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 10:41
  3. "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye)- 8:15
  4. "Minor Move" (Brooks) - 6:40
  5. "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) - 6:10
  6. "Minor Move" [Alternate Take] - 6:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic Review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 175. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Liner notes by Michael Cuscuna