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Artist:Leo Parker
Title:Rollin' With Leo
Label:  Blue Note
Country:Europe
Catalogue:BST 84095
Date:1986
Format:LP
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Community: 1 Owns
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Leo ParkerThe Lion's RoarLeo ParkerRate
A2Leo ParkerBad GirlStan ConoverRate
A3Leo ParkerRollin' With LeoLeo ParkerRate
A4Leo ParkerMusic Hall BeatIllinois JacquetRate
B1Leo ParkerJumpin' LeoLeo ParkerRate
B2Leo ParkerTalkin' The BluesLeo ParkerRate
B3Leo ParkerStuffyHawkins, Livingstone, EvansRate
B4Leo ParkerMad Lad ReturnsLeo ParkerRate


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sladesounds
19th Jul 2014
 

All Music Review by Steve Leggett
Drugs and addictions defined most of Leo Parker's adult life, finally claiming it entirely in February of 1962 when he was only 36 years old. Only months earlier in 1961, in two sessions held on October 12 and October 20, Parker had played his heart out in what would have been his second album for Blue Note Records that year, and it had appeared that the baritone saxophonist was well on his way to a much deserved career comeback. The sessions, however, weren't released until almost 20 years later.

Rollin' with Leo is a wonderful portrait of this unsung but brilliant player, whose huge, sad, but almost impossibly strong tone always felt like it carried the world on its shoulders. The centrepiece of Rollin' with Leo is the fascinating "Talkin' the Blues," which unfolds, nearly theme-less, like a late-night conversation, ebbing and flowing exactly the way a conversation does, with Parker's baritone swinging back to gather notes, but always moving and stretching forward, expanding the conversation until it seems like everything that could be said has been said.

Parker's death was tragic because he had so much more to say, and that makes this fine set all that more of a treasure.
 

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