Artist: Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan Quintet
Album: Sprint
Genre: Hard Bop
Label: Elektra/Musician/WEA/Warner
Released: 1982/2013
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- How Do You Know (Dial) - 7:23
- As Time Goes By (Hupfeld) - 7:36
- Sprint (Dial) - 7:36
- My Son, The Minstrel (Dial) - 6:05
- Speak Like a Child (Hancock) - 11:47
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- Personnel:
- Red Rodney - flugelhorn (#1,2,4,5), trumpet (#3)
- Ira Sullivan - alto flute (#1,5), alto saxophone (#1-3), soprano saxophone (#4), flugelhorn (#5)
- Garry Dial - piano
- Jay Anderson - bass
- Jeff Hirshfield - drums
The last of six LPs by the Red Rodney-Ira Sullivan Quintet was also the band's finest. There are times in the music (which consists of three originals by pianist Garry Dial, Herbie Hancock's "Speak Like a Child" and "As Time Goes By") where the group sounds like the early Ornette Coleman Quartet. The setting and advanced repertoire clearly challenged Rodney (who mostly sticks here to flugelhorn) and inspired Sullivan (switching between alto, alto flute, soprano and flugelhorn). A post-bop gem, one of Rodney's finest recordings.
Review by Scott Yanow