Back to the Tracks

Back to the Tracks is a hard bop album by tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded in 1960 and released posthumously. The tracks first appeared in a Mosaic 12" LP box-set (MR4-106) entitled The Complete Blue Note Recordings of The Tina Brooks Quintets. The album was originally intended as BLP 4052, but, for some reason, it was shelved at the time. A Blue Note CD (purple cover, Blue Note 21737) appeared in 1998, then reissued in 2006 (green cover, BST 84052). Both editions are now out-of-print. A song recorded during the session, "David the King", was rejected since it "never made it to releasable quality".[1] Said piece, however, made it to Brooks' final recording for Blue Note, The Waiting Game.

Back to the Tracks
Studio album by
Tina Brooks
ReleasedJanuary 27, 1998
RecordedSeptember 1 and October 20, 1960
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length38:32
LabelBlue Note
Blue Note 21737
ProducerAlfred Lion
Tina Brooks chronology
True Blue
(1960)		 Back to the Tracks
(1998)		 The Waiting Game
(1961)
Alternative cover
Re-release BST 84052

It features performances by Brooks, Blue Mitchell, Kenny Drew, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor. This group of musicians was also responsible for one of the sessions from the Jackie McLean album Jackie's Bag recorded a month earlier.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Stephen Erlewine, writing for Allmusic, states "Listening to Back to the Tracks, it's impossible to figure out why the record wasn't released at the time, but it's a hard bop gem from the early '60s to cherish."

David H. Rosenthal in his work Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 dedicated a number of pages to Brooks. Of his composition Street Singer, Rosenthal wrote it is "an authentic hard-bop classic" where "pathos, irony and rage come together in a performance at once anguished and sinister."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Tina Brooks except those indicated

  1. "Back to the Tracks" - 8:03
  2. "Street Singer" - 10:21
  3. "The Blues and I" - 8:55
  4. "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer) - 6:05
  5. "The Ruby and The Pearl" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) - 5:08

Track 2 recorded on September 1, 1960; the other tracks on October 20, 1960.

Personnel

Footnotes
  1. Liner notes by Michael Cuscuna
  2. Allmusic Review
  3. David H. Rosenthal (1992) Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 127-126.
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