True_Blue_(Tina_Brooks_album)

<i>True Blue</i> (Tina Brooks album)

True Blue (Tina Brooks album)

1960 studio album by Tina Brooks

True Blue is a jazz album by tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded on June 25, 1960, and released on the Blue Note label. In the hard-bop idiom, it was Brooks' only performance as leader to be released during his lifetime, and features performances by Brooks, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Jordan, Sam Jones and Art Taylor.[2]

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic states: "the hard bop solos are consistently excellent" on True Blue.[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Tina Brooks except those indicated.
  1. "Good Old Soul" - 8:07
  2. "Up Tight's Creek" - 5:17
  3. "Theme for Doris" - 5:53
  4. "True Blue" - 4:57
  5. "Miss Hazel" - 5:32
  6. "Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You" (Jack Segal, Marvin Fisher) - 7:53

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  1. "True Blue" (Alternate Take) - 5:06
  2. "Good Old Soul" (Alternate Take) - 7:35

Personnel

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    Schwann Record & Tape Guide, 1965
  2. [2]
    Blue Note Records discography accessed November 1, 2010
  3. [3]
    Allmusic Review
  4. [4]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. [5]
    Scott Yanow, Allmusic, accessed 3 October 2010, https://www.allmusic.com/album/r31257
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