Vinyl Album - Leo Parker - Rollin' With Leo - Blue Note

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Leo Parker
Title:	Rollin' With Leo
Label:	Blue Note
Country:	Europe
Catalogue:	BST 84095
Date:	1986
Format:	LP
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Produced by Alfred Lion

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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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