Clark Terry, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson The Alternate Blues (Analogue Productions, Pablo Series)

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• “…the sound here? Demo disc quality IMO for timbral accuracy, sound staging, dynamics, you name it but especially for how the trumpets were recorded and how each horn players’ distinct tonal and textural personality is so well captured.” Music = 9/11; Sound = 10/11 – Michael Fremer, TrackingAngle.com.

  For The Alternate Blues, producer Norman Granz set aside his rule against issuing what are variously called in the recording business outtakes, breakdowns, or alternate takes.

  The reason was that despite missed cues and procedural problems in the rhythm section, Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, and Clark Terry played the blues at a level of passion and expressiveness the equal of the versions originally released on The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4. In addition, there are four standards not heard in th