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Meets the Detroit Jazzmen

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This also goes by the name of JAZZMEN DETROIT. Pepper Adams,Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan,Paul Chambers and the drummer from Pittsburg, Kenny Clarke. It was recorded in 1956 for the Savoy label and is included in the Kenny Clarke box set KLOOK'S THE MAN along with other mid 50's Savoy recordings with Clarke on drums- BOHEMIA AFTER DARK, KLOOK'S CLIQUE,TELEFUNKEN BLUES and more with Ernie Wilkens and Frank Wess.---- Adams and Burrell were at the top of their games already,and my copy has very good sound quality. Apothegem and Your Host are great originals. Minus a star for lack of a ballad,although Your Host is easy going enough.

I am one of those who thinks the great 'Clook' made the best sum of his own recordings and performances in Europe with european musicians, visiting americans and best of all the Clarke Boland Band great circle of musicians. This said, the very cd here is maybe my favourite Clarke recordings before that magical eurpean period. Here all the players involved really 'click' with the drummer giving an almost sublime, chamber like hard bop lesson, full of rhythmic drive and sublety, yet melodic and charming. The sound of the cd reedition is absolutely stunning (and we are in the '50s, mind that) with a fine digital work. Here Clarke seems to make breathe already the moods he was going to fully develope later on in the old continent with Frandy Boland, Jimmy Woode and many awesome performers, in the first '60s Blue Note session The Golden Eight.