T.T.T.

T.T.T. Artist: J.T. Montrose
Label: Storyville Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 717101829125
EAN: 0717101829125
ASIN: B00001QGO3


Release Date: 1999-09-14

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Tracks:

  1. You Don't Know What Love Is
  2. All The Things You Are
  3. What's New
  4. Central Park West
  5. Airegin-Be-Bop Theme

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars T.T.T. J.T. Montrose.......2007-01-06

Great playing by all especially by Monterose and great piano from Hod O'brien

5 out of 5 stars It's the sort of luck the guy always had!.......2004-08-14

J.R. Monterose fans pounce! Given the prices most of his other available cds command, this is a rare bargain. I only stumbled across it because I mistyped the name (neglecting the middle "e") and after assuring myself the "J.R. Montrose Quartet" was not led by west coast big band tenorist Jack Montrose I bought it for my (I hope one day) definitive collection of the great tenor (an occasional soprano) player's all too few recorded efforts.

Recorded live in July 1988 in the Jazzhuiz in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, and featuring the fine American session pianist Hod O'Brien and a Danish bassist and drummer, J.R. is in peak form, stretching out on a selection of standards, including "You Don't Know What Love Is," "All The Things You Are" and "What's New," plus lovely readings of a work by a player he is known to have revered, Coltrane's "Central Park West" and one of his own bop-influenced compositions "Green Street Scene" (misidentified on the disc as "Airegin," a composition by another player for whom he always professed great admiration, Sonny Rollins).

I'm listening to it (for the fourth straight time) as I write this, and I cannot conceive of ever growing tired of it. Not being a musician myself, I'm not equipped to discuss the intricacies of the playing (though even a non-musician can sense there are plenty of these) but as a writer, I can pay J.R. this tribute. That whenever I start feeling unappreciated or neglected in my own chosen field of endeavor, I put on one of his albums (either as leader or sideman) and reflect that if anyone ever had the right to feel unappreciated or neglected it was this man. And that if a player as gifted as this could labor in obscurity, what in the name of God have I got to complain about?

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