Tina Brooks: Minor Move LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) crate-digging Diamond In My Hand

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“We called this album Blue Eclipse as a nod to Blue Skies

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“I could happily play all the music from Bright Size Life right now

Tina Brooks: Minor Move LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) crate-digging Diamond In My HandBlue 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