--- product_id: 34809633 title: "True Blue" price: "£28.57" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/34809633-true-blue store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # True Blue **Price:** £28.57 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** True Blue - **How much does it cost?** £28.57 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/34809633-true-blue) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description With a strong, smooth tone and an amazing flow of fresh ideas every time he soloed, tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks should have been a major jazz artist, but his legacy is confined to a series of dates that he did for Blue Note as a sideman and leader. "True Blue" is the only album under his own name to come out in his lifetime. He and Freddie Hubbard had recorded Hubbard's "Open Sesame" a week earlier. Based on these two albums alone, Brooks should have been recognized as an important new voice in jazz. This CD adds to two alternate takes to the original LP. * Bonus tracks, not part of the original LP. Recorded on June 25, 1960 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey TINA BROOKS, tenor sax, FREDDIE HUBBARD, trumpet; DUKE JORDAN, piano; SAM JONES, bass; ART TAYLOR, drums Review: On the reissue's much improved sound - Enough has been said by jazz critics and other reviewers attesting to the quality of this music that I can't really add anything to the conversation. What I will comment on is the technical quality of this CD reissue. I have been pragmatically and opportunistically upgrading my Blue Note collection with remastered editions of my favorite albums (CD's). For the ten or so reissues I have picked up recently, all originally recorded between about 1957 and 1966, there is a wide range of variance in the sound improvement of the reissued disc versus the original CD release, ranging from, "this was barely worth the $8 I spent on it" to "wow, what an improvement". I'm happy to say that the reissued True Blue elicits the latter response and I was ecstatic to hear that. No more is Brooks' plaintive, yearning and robust tone constrained so unnaturally to a single speaker with no projection beyond the plane of the speaker. His solos now project and fill a much larger space between the left and right speakers and breathe with the saxophonist's statements. (I'm stopping short of saying that there's an actual sound stage such as is achievable with more modern recording technology). It's deserving treatment for a musician who puts so much into his solos. I wish I could say that all the Blue Note reissues I've bought were such slam, dunk improvements over the original releases but that's not the case. But thankfully, True Blue, always one of my favorite albums, is now twice as much fun to listen to as it was before. Review: An Essential Album, as are all of the Tina Brooks Bluenotes - As with a number of other immensely talented but unheralded unrecognized and jazz musicians, only one of the four albums led by Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was released in his lifetime. Fortunately all four have been released on CD individually and as a boxed set. Brooks had a unique sound on the tenor that becomes instantly recognizable once you hear it. All the Tina Brooks albums should be in any serious jazz-lover's collection, and Brooks fans will be interested in acquiring the albums he recorded as a sideman with others, including Jackie McLean, Jimmy Smith and Kenny Burrell. ## Images ![True Blue - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/612CzD1pIeL.jpg) ![True Blue - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71KPk6k+fhL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On the reissue's much improved sound *by P***S on February 18, 2016* Enough has been said by jazz critics and other reviewers attesting to the quality of this music that I can't really add anything to the conversation. What I will comment on is the technical quality of this CD reissue. I have been pragmatically and opportunistically upgrading my Blue Note collection with remastered editions of my favorite albums (CD's). For the ten or so reissues I have picked up recently, all originally recorded between about 1957 and 1966, there is a wide range of variance in the sound improvement of the reissued disc versus the original CD release, ranging from, "this was barely worth the $8 I spent on it" to "wow, what an improvement". I'm happy to say that the reissued True Blue elicits the latter response and I was ecstatic to hear that. No more is Brooks' plaintive, yearning and robust tone constrained so unnaturally to a single speaker with no projection beyond the plane of the speaker. His solos now project and fill a much larger space between the left and right speakers and breathe with the saxophonist's statements. (I'm stopping short of saying that there's an actual sound stage such as is achievable with more modern recording technology). It's deserving treatment for a musician who puts so much into his solos. I wish I could say that all the Blue Note reissues I've bought were such slam, dunk improvements over the original releases but that's not the case. But thankfully, True Blue, always one of my favorite albums, is now twice as much fun to listen to as it was before. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Essential Album, as are all of the Tina Brooks Bluenotes *by R***N on February 2, 2014* As with a number of other immensely talented but unheralded unrecognized and jazz musicians, only one of the four albums led by Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was released in his lifetime. Fortunately all four have been released on CD individually and as a boxed set. Brooks had a unique sound on the tenor that becomes instantly recognizable once you hear it. All the Tina Brooks albums should be in any serious jazz-lover's collection, and Brooks fans will be interested in acquiring the albums he recorded as a sideman with others, including Jackie McLean, Jimmy Smith and Kenny Burrell. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A positive surprise. Good album! *by R***E on May 31, 2015* Tina Brooks was new to me until I heard him on our local public radio station.This album was definitely a positive surprise. Brooks offers a volume of hard bob from the productive early 1960s for Blue Note. Good compositions with a solid group of musicians, especially Freddie Hubbard. I have listened to it several times since I purchased it and plan to play it regularly. 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