Open sesame
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| Label (s) | Blue note | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
6/8 |
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38:38 (LP) / 53:32 (CD) |
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Studio (s) |
Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey |
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Open Sesame is a jazz album by Freddie Hubbard , recorded on July 19, 1960 in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey and released on Blue Note Records .
The album
Open Sesame was the record debut on the Blue Note label of the then 22-year-old trumpeter, who shortly before had played in the octet of Slide Hampton and the sextet by Jay Jay Johnson . He had also worked with John Coltrane , Sonny Rollins, and Eric Dolphy . With the exception of bassist Sam Jones , Hubbard had hired other newcomers for the session , the drummer Clifford Jarvis , the young pianist McCoy Tyner , who had previously only worked with Coltrane, Curtis Fuller and the Benny Golson / Art Farmer Jazztet , and the tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks who then disappeared from the scene after a few Blue Note sessions. Hubbard had met Brooks at a jam session at Count Basie 's Club and had worked on his Blue Note album True Blue in June 1960. Brooks then wrote the composition "Gypsy Blue" and the title track "Open Sesame". Ira Gitler understands the meaning of the title, "Open Sesame!", Taken from the story of Ali Baba and the forty robbers (from the stories from the Arabian Nights ) as a "door opener" for two doors, a door that holds the Blue Note - Label has opened for the young trumpeter, the other door opened by Freddie Hubbard himself by playing on this album.
“Open Sesame” opens the album with a swinging mood that reminds Ira Gitler of the early Jazz Messengers and the Horace Silver Quintet. The standard “But Beautiful” is a ballad with soulful solos by the wind instruments and the pianist. Tina Brooks' track "Gypsy Blue" with the catchy theme presented in unison is reminiscent of Balkan music , with solos by Brooks, Hubbard, Tyner and Jones. The standard "All or Nothing at All" is classic hard bop , with Clifford Jarvis playing straight ahead . "One Mint Julep" was originally a rhythm and blues hit by The Clovers ; Hubbard often played the title in his Turbo Village appearances . A long thematic introduction is followed by solos by Brooks, Hubbard and Tyner. The last title, Hubbard's composition "Hub's Nub" shows, according to Gitler's assessment, the carefully controlled playing of the trumpeter in the front line of a solid rhythm section . Tina Brooks joins in with an energetic solo.
Rating of the album
Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who give the album the highest rating in their Penguin Guide to Jazz , count Open Sesame - as well as his follow-up albums Goin 'Up (1961) and Hub-Tones (1962) to the classic works of hardbop; the youthful urge of the musicians around Freddie Hubbard in the first two Blue Note albums make them very lively; the authors particularly emphasize his solo in the title piece. Open Sesame is also a significant performance by saxophonist Tina Brooks, who stands out with his mixture of elegant and broken playing.
Editorial notes
The CD was re-released in 2001 as part of the Rudy Van Gelder Edition series , with two previously unreleased, longer versions of “Open Sesame” and “Gypsy Blue” as well as new liner notes by Bob Blumenthal , which particularly address Tina Brook's further career.
The titles
- Freddie Hubbard Quintett - Open Sesame (LP edition BLP 4040 / BNJ 71013 / BST 84040, CD edition, (724349534124) published 2001)
- Open Sesame (Tina Brooks) 7:08
- But Beautiful ( Johnny Burke / Jimmy Van Heusen ) 6:23
- Gypsy Blue (Tina Brooks) 6:25
- All or Nothing at All ( Jack Lawrence / Arthur Altman ) 5:32
- One Mint Julep (Rudolph Toombs) 6:00
- Hub's Nub (Freddie Hubbard) 6:51
- Open Sesame (alternate take) 7:14
- Gypsy Blue (alternate take) 7:35
literature
- Bob Blumenthal : Liner notes for the extended new edition 2001
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Ira Gitler : Original liner notes
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon . Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1988