In A Mellow Tone
Wednesday June 5th, 2019 with Jim Reil
The great but under-appreciated tenor player Tina Brooks, whose classic Blue Note recordings were mostly unreleased during his short lifetime.
Tonight we follow the sadly foreshortened career of Tina Brooks, a superb tenor player at his peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Drug addiction soon took him out of action, but his music still lives.
| Good Old Soul Tina Brooks - True Blue |
| Up Tight's Creek Tina Brooks - True Blue |
| Theme for Doris Tina Brooks - True Blue |
| True Blue Tina Brooks - True Blue |
| The Thespian Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades of Redd |
| Melanie Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades of Redd |
| Swift Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades of Redd |
| Just a Ballad for My Baby Freddie Redd Quintet - Shades of Redd |
| Talkin' About Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game |
| Dhyana Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game |
| David the King Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game |
| The Waiting Game Tina Brooks - The Waiting Game |
| Back to the Tracks Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks |
| Street Singer Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks |
| The Blues and I Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks |
| For Heaven's Sake Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks |
| The Ruby and the Pearl Tina Brooks - Back to the Tracks |
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Excellent show, Jim! Bravo!
11:52 PM, June 5th, 2019