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1998 studio album by Tina Brooks
Back to the Tracks is a hard bop album by tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded in 1960 and released posthumously. The tracks first appeared in a Mosaic 12" LP box-set (MR4-106) entitled The Complete Blue Note Recordings of The Tina Brooks Quintets . The album was originally intended as BLP 4052, but, for some reason, it was shelved at the time. A Blue Note CD (purple cover, Blue Note 21737) appeared in 1998, then reissued in 2006 (green cover, BST 84052). Both editions are now out-of-print. A song recorded during the session, "David the King", was rejected since it "never made it to releasable quality".[ 1] Said piece, however, made it to Brooks' final recording for Blue Note, The Waiting Game .
It features performances by Brooks, Blue Mitchell , Kenny Drew , Paul Chambers and Art Taylor . This group of musicians was also responsible for one of the sessions from the Jackie McLean album Jackie's Bag recorded a month earlier.
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic [ 2]
Stephen Erlewine, writing for Allmusic, states "Listening to Back to the Tracks , it's impossible to figure out why the record wasn't released at the time, but it's a hard bop gem from the early '60s to cherish."
David H. Rosenthal in his work Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 dedicated a number of pages to Brooks. Of his composition Street Singer , Rosenthal wrote it is "an authentic hard-bop classic" where "pathos, irony and rage come together in a performance at once anguished and sinister."[ 3]
Track listing
All compositions by Tina Brooks except those indicated
"Back to the Tracks" - 8:03
"Street Singer" - 10:21
"The Blues and I" - 8:55
"For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards , Donald Meyer) - 6:05
"The Ruby and The Pearl" (Jay Livingston , Ray Evans ) - 5:08
Track 2 recorded on September 1, 1960; the other tracks on October 20, 1960.
Personnel
^ Liner notes by Michael Cuscuna
^ Allmusic Review
^ David H. Rosenthal (1992) Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 . New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 127-126.
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
Albums as leader or co-leader Sideman with others
Swingin' (Kenny Burrell , 1958–59)
Blue Lights, Volumes 1 & 2 (Kenny Burrell, 1958)
On View at the Five Spot Cafe (Kenny Burrell, 1959)
Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard , 1960)
Music from the Connection (Howard McGhee , 1960)
Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1959)
Shades of Redd (Freddie Redd , 1960)
Redd's Blues (Freddie Redd, 1961)
Cool Blues (Jimmy Smith , 1958)
House Party (Jimmy Smith, 1958)
The Sermon! (Jimmy Smith, 1958)
Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release, except for the compilation section.
As leader or co-leader With others
The Happy Blues (Gene Ammons , 1956)
Jammin' with Gene (Gene Ammons, 1956)
Funky (Gene Ammons, 1957)
Jammin' in Hi Fi with Gene Ammons (Gene Ammons, 1957)
Hard Bop (Art Blakey /The Jazz Messengers , 1956)
Originally (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1956 [1982])
Drum Suite (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1956–57)
A Night in Tunisia (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, Vik/RCA, 1957)
Ritual: The Modern Jazz Messengers (Art Blakey, 1957)
Tough! (Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers, 1957)
Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks , 1960)
2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney , 1957)
Off to the Races (Donald Byrd , 1958)
Fuego (Donald Byrd, 1959)
Byrd in Flight (Donald Byrd, 1960)
Cool Struttin' (Sonny Clark , 1958)
Dig (Miles Davis , 1951)
Quintet/Sextet (Miles Davis, 1955)
Davis Cup (Walter Davis Jr. , 1959)
Inta Somethin' (Kenny Dorham , 1961)
Matador (Kenny Dorham, 1962)
Tuba Sounds (Ray Draper , 1957)
2 Trumpets (Art Farmer , 1957)
Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (Dizzy Gillespie , 1992)
To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992)
Pithecanthropus Erectus (Charles Mingus , 1956)
Blues & Roots (Charles Mingus, 1958)
Mobley's Message (Hank Mobley , Prestige, 1956)
Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967)
Evolution (Grachan Moncur III , 1963)
Lee-Way (Lee Morgan, 1960)
Tom Cat (Lee Morgan, 1964)
Cornbread (Lee Morgan, 1965)
Infinity (Lee Morgan, 1965)
Charisma (Lee Morgan, 1966)
The Sixth Sense (Lee Morgan, 1967–68)
The Music From "The Connection" (Freddie Redd , 1960)
Shades of Redd (Freddie Redd, 1960)
Redd's Blues (Freddie Redd, 1961)
Open House (Jimmy Smith , 1960)
Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
Taylor's Wailers (Art Taylor, 1957)
Mal/2 (Mal Waldron , 1957)
Left Alone (Mal Waldron, 1959)
Left Alone '86 (Mal Waldron, 1986)
Easterly Winds (Jack Wilson , 1967)
Film and TV appearances
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader WithLou Donaldson WithPhilly Joe Jones WithSam Jones WithJimmy McGriff WithHorace Silver WithStanley Turrentine With others
Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley , 1958)
Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks , 1960)
Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean , 1960)
My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles , 1970)
True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon , 1976)
Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon , 1976)
Dolo! (Dolo Coker , 1976)
California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976)
Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook , 1961)
Filthy! (Papa John Creach , 1972)
Red's Good Groove (Red Garland , 1962)
Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green , 1970)
Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes , 1966)
Homecoming! (Elmo Hope , 1961)
Montara (Bobby Hutcherson , 1975)
The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard , 1969)
The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef , 1968)
Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern , 1968)
Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall , 1971)
Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973)
Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann , 1961)
Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae , 1976)
Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960)
Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960)
Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley , 1967)
Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman , 1970)
Opus De Don (Don Patterson , 1968)
Oh Baby! (Big John Patton , 1965)
Breezing (Sonny Red , 1960)
Images (Sonny Red, 1961)
Good Move! (Freddie Roach , 1963)
Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse , 1960)
Open House (Jimmy Smith , 1960)
Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960)
Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt , 1962)
Soul Time (Bobby Timmons , 1960)
Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick , 1963)
The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966)
Spectrum (Cedar Walton , 1968)
The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969)
Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976)
Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul , 1966)