Blue & Sentimental

Blue & Sentimental is an album by American saxophonist Ike Quebec recorded in 1961 and released on the Blue Note label.[2]

Blue & Sentimental
Studio album by
Ike Quebec
ReleasedJune 1963[1]
RecordedDecember 16 and 23, 1961
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length39:31 original LP
50:27 CD reissue
LabelBlue Note
BST 84098
ProducerAlfred Lion
Ike Quebec chronology
It Might as Well Be Spring
(1961)		 Blue & Sentimental
(1963)		 Easy Living
(1962)

The album features a quartet made up of Quebec (occasionally doubling on piano), guitarist Grant Green, and a rhythm section of Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. The album features rare rhythm guitar accompaniment by Green, who was more typically a soloist.[3][4] The original LP release featured six tracks, and two additional titles ("That Old Black Magic" and "It's All Right With Me") were added to CD reissues starting in 1988. The track "Count Every Star" features a different group of backing musicians.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 5 stars and calling it "a superbly sensuous blend of lusty blues swagger and achingly romantic ballads... a quiet, sorely underrated masterpiece".[5]

In 2004, critic Richard Cook wrote that the album "might be Quebec's masterpiece".[7]

1988 CD Track listing
  1. "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston) - 7:28
  2. "Minor Impulse" (Quebec) - 6:34
  3. "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) - 7:04
  4. "Blues for Charlie" (Green) - 6:48
  5. "Like" (Quebec) - 5:21
  6. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  7. "It's All Right With Me" (Porter) - 6:05 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Count Every Star" (Bruno Coquatrix, Sammy Gallop) - 6:16

Recorded on December 16 (tracks 1-7) and December 23 (track 8), 1961.

Personnel

References
  1. Billboard June 22, 1963
  2. Blue Note Records discography accessed October 29, 2010
  3. "To hear [Grant] comp [i.e., play rhythm guitar] behind a soloist you have to check his sideman dates, like Blue and Sentimental by Ike Quebec..." Sharony Andrews Green (1999) Grant Green: Rediscovering the Forgotten Genius of Jazz Guitar, Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard, p. 224
  4. "In place of a keyboard, Grant, quietly comping or soloing in fluid single note style, creates acres of space in which Quebec's rapturous playing can shine." Chris May (2008). "Ike Quebec: Blue & Sentimental", Review for AllAboutJazz.com, April 12, 2008; accessed 01 Jan 2018
  5. Huey, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 29, 2010
  6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1186. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. Richard Cook (2004). Blue Note Records: The Biography. Justin, Charles & Company, p. 143
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