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Cookbook 1

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This first of three volumes of the "cookbook" series is classic "Lockjaw" and Shirley Scott. Those two dominate to session with Jerome and George getting in a few licks. It's all blues based music, some uptempo (Have Horn Will Blow and 3 Dueces) one ballad ( But Beautiful) and a medium tempo blues (The Chef). But "In the Kitchen" blows the roof off the building!!! It's the kind of slow blues that Davis and Scott made famous. Ferocious playing on their part behind a strong walking bass. Avalon is a bonus cut on the CD which was not on the original album. This review is based on the original album. If you don't have this volume of the cookbook, you don't have the best recipies.

The first, and best, of the three Cookbook albums Lockjaw made with Shirley Scott during the second half of 1958. Jerome Richardson is an added feature on these recordings, playing mostly flute (tenor on THREE DEUCES). Half the tunes are blues: HAVE HORN, WILL TRAVEL is taken way up and really wails. IN THE KITCHEN is at the other end of the speed spectrum - 13 minutes of heavy-on-the-cooking-wine blues. BUT BEAUTIFUL is taken at a slow ballad tempo, as it should be, and both Jaws and Richardson milk it for all it's worth - a gorgeous rendition. This is solid mainstream jazz at its finest. Definitely worth checking out.