Released 1980 Minor Move
(1958) True Blue
(1960) Release date 1980 Label Blue Note Records | Length 40:38 Artist Tina Brooks Producer Alfred Lion Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded March 16, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack Similar Tina Brooks albums, Jazz albums | ||
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 Brooks' first album as a leader for Blue Note Records. The album, however, was shelved for years until being issued in Japan in 1980, as Blue Note GXF 3072. Only in 2000, Minor Move was released on CD on a limited edition, now obviously out-of-print. The piece "Nutville" is sometimes credited to Lee Morgan, but in truth, as Cuscuna explains in the liner notes to the 2000 reprint, "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."
Contents
Track listing
- "Nutville" (Brooks) - 8:52
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 10:41
- "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye)- 8:15
- "Minor Move" (Brooks) - 6:40
- "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) - 6:10
- "Minor Move" [Alternate Take] - 6:53 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
Songs
1Nutville8:50
2The Way You Look Tonight10:42
3Star Eyes8:13