Splendid but ill-fated tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks’ recording career didn’t really start until 1958, when he participated on Jimmy Smith’s LP The Sermon. This release presents all of the quintet studio albums he made under his own name. Due to personal problems, Brooks stopped recording in early 1961 and wouldn’t be heard from again prior to his death in 1974, at the age of 42.
This 2-CD set contains his complete original albums: Minor Move, True Blue, Back to the Tracks, and The Waiting Game, also featuring such stars as Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Drew, Duke Jordan, Paul Chambers, Art Blakey, and Philly Joe Jones, among others.
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1. Nutville
2. The Way You Look Tonight
3. Star Eyes
4. Minor Move
5. Everything Happens To Me
6. Good Old Soul
7. Up Tight S Creek
8. Theme For Doris
9. Miss Hazel
10. True Blue
11. Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You
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1. Back To the Tracks
2. Street Singer
3. The Blues and I
4. For Heaven's Sake
5. The Ruby and the Pearl
6. Talkin About
7. One For Myrtle
8. Dhyana
9. David the King
10. Stranger In Paradise
11. The Waiting Game
