Tina Brooks: Minor Move LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) BREC-201 inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novella

inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea

Up Tight's Creek

tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter

On his 1962 debut album

a jazz violinist whose stirring composition “Passage” gives the album its title

Tina Brooks: Minor Move LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) BREC-201 inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novellaBlue Note, 1980 Recorded in 1958, Minor Move was Tina Brooks' very first recording, though it wasn't released until 1980, 6 years after his tragic death at the age of 42. In fact, Brooks' 1960 classic True Blue was the saxophonist's only album released during his all too short lifetime. Once all 4 of Brooks' Blue Note albums were released his status as one of the most innovative tenor saxophone stylists in jazz has become clear. As Larry Kart notes in