Freddie Redd: Shades of Redd 1LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-22 All Apologies

All Apologies

South African pianist

Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell’s Modernists during a period when the saxophonist was coming up on the scene and cutting his teeth alongside bebop innovators including Thelonious Monk

You've Got to Learn

Something Heavy

Freddie Redd: Shades of Redd 1LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-22 All ApologiesBlue Note, 1960 The underrated hard bop pianist and composer Freddie Redd first gained a degree of prominence as the composer of the remarkable score for the acclaimed stage play The Connection, in which he also appeared as an actor playing the role of a jazz pianist. Redds 1960 Blue Note debut was a recording of The Music from The Connection and he would continue to display his compositional prowess on his next date, Shades of Redd, recorded later