Great Jazz Albums (IMO) #39

Charles McPherson.  Be-Bop Revisited (1964).  Charles McPherson is an alto saxophone player known for his work with Charles Mingus throughout the 1960s.  Stanley Crouch has said that McPherson "is a singular voice who has never sacrificed the fluidity of his melody making."  Here he teams up with his long-time collaborator, the great Barry Harris, "one of the major bop pianists of the last half of the 20th century."  They perfom riveting interpretations of Charlie Parker and Bud Powell.  Also in the quintet are trumpeter Carmell Jones, bassist Nelson Boyd and drummer Al "Tootie" Heath.

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