Action (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP BF30 larger-than-life personality

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Scrap Iron (Side B)

It’s a sign of the sheer volume of top-notch hard bop that Blue Note was recording in the 1950s-60s that a supremely swinging date like Hank Mobley’s 1957 album Curtain Call would sit in the vaults unreleased until 1984

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Come Rain or Come Shine

Action (Tone Poet Series): Vinyl LP BF30 larger-than-life personalityJackie McLeans 60s output ran the gamut from hard bop to avant garde with his 1964 album Action splitting the difference from the searing title track to the plaintive ballad Wrong Handle and the grooving Hootnan with a quintet of Charles Tolliver, Bobby Hutcherson, Cecil McBee, and Billy Higgins. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI,