New discovery from me via Utube...anyone who digs Harold Land, Elmo and Curtis Counce....THAT feel, should ck/out Lenny Mcbrowne's two dates from the early 60s. "Four Souls" and "Eastern Sounds". A VERY hip band....
"When Lenny McBrowne and the 4
Souls began gigging in Sacramento
and San Francisco clubs they were
critically hailed as the greatest
promise for the future of West
Coast jazz. The leader had gained
much of his experience working
with Harold Land and playing
engagements with Sonny Rollins,
Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller. His
renowned finesse as a drummer
was acquired while mastering the
subtleties of his mentor, Max Roach.
On these sessions for Riverside, he
showed he had become one of the
top drummers on the jazz scene,
and his young musicians—average
age 25—swing hard as a unit. Terry
Trotter, Don Sleet and Daniel
Jackson are here on top of the
demands he placed on them. But
what stands out here above all is
the rare gift of cohesion, thoroughly
mastered by Lenny McBrowne and
the 4 Souls."
Daniel Jackson plays great "Landish" tenor and is still around. I think.
BN.
"When Lenny McBrowne and the 4
Souls began gigging in Sacramento
and San Francisco clubs they were
critically hailed as the greatest
promise for the future of West
Coast jazz. The leader had gained
much of his experience working
with Harold Land and playing
engagements with Sonny Rollins,
Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller. His
renowned finesse as a drummer
was acquired while mastering the
subtleties of his mentor, Max Roach.
On these sessions for Riverside, he
showed he had become one of the
top drummers on the jazz scene,
and his young musicians—average
age 25—swing hard as a unit. Terry
Trotter, Don Sleet and Daniel
Jackson are here on top of the
demands he placed on them. But
what stands out here above all is
the rare gift of cohesion, thoroughly
mastered by Lenny McBrowne and
the 4 Souls."
Daniel Jackson plays great "Landish" tenor and is still around. I think.
BN.
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