True Blue [Original recording remastered]

Tina Brooks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 15, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B0007DBJ6O
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,181 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary Reissue, February 19, 2005

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Thomas Aikin (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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I had been after this album for about six years, but knew that Blue Note would eventually give it the proper reissue treatment. Tina Brooks has long been a cult hero in jazz and now that True Blue has been included in Blue Note's Rudy Van Gelder series he will find additional fans. Brooks, like many other jazzmen, lived hard and died young. He sounds like he's bleeding soul on each note that he plays. Thats not to say his music is depressing, on the contrary he write bluesy classic 50/60s Blue Note hard bop. Brooks' highly melodic solos owe much to his background as an R&B saxophonist. His sense of melody and that ultra lived in sense of the blues is really what makes him a notable player. On True Blue , Brooks is backed by a typically stellar Blue Note rhythm section and is joined by Freddie Hubbard on the trumpet. It really is the Tina Brooks show however as he takes long solos on every cut. Hard to pick any particular standout track, but the entire program is steeped in the blues. Several of the tunes remind me of Brooks' "Street Singer" (still my favorite Brooks piece). I highly recommend True Blue, and its likely his finest album, but Brooks' entire catalog (four albums) is pretty much necessary. Get this and get "Back to the Tracks" before it goes out of print.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal!, August 18, 2006

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D. Kolton (The Great Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: True Blue (Audio CD)

Like many of his peers, Tina Brooks life was cut short by a drug overdose. However in the short time he was with us, he recorded some phenomenal stuff. This is by far his best album under his name, with songs that both flow from the bop days, yet maintain such a timelss quality that they seem current today.

Truly no jazz/Blue Note collection is complete without this disk!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Bluenote collection is complete without TrueBlue, May 27, 2006

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George (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: True Blue (Audio CD)

Tina Brooks has a most original sound, which is both sad and extremely beautiful at the same time. No jazz collection is complete without it.