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Soho Scene '57: Jazz Goes Mod

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Label: Rhythm & Blues Records
Released: 2023
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Personnel

Tubby Hayes

saxophone, tenor

Jimmy Smith

organ, Hammond B3

Ronnie Scott

saxophone, tenor

John Coltrane

saxophone

Dizzy Reece

trumpet

Wes Montgomery

guitar

Mose Allison

piano and vocals

Don Rendell

saxophone

Charles Mingus

bass, acoustic

Jimmy Deuchar

trumpet

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It might be a bit of a stretch to say that things were going mod in 1957 – as the London mod movement still had a few years to come – but modern jazz was certainly taking over the scene in the city, thanks to a huge rise of homegrown acts who were serving up their own response to American work on labels like Blue Note and Prestige! This set's full of some of the best to appear at the time – a great lineup of London players at their best – with cuts that include "Sputnik" by Dick Heckstall Smith, "Cheek To Cheek" by the Jazz Couriers, "Monkey Business" by Kenny Graham's Afro Cubists, "Cinders" by Vic Ash Plus Four, "Chelsea Bridge" by Derek Smith, "Four" by Tubby Hayes & Victor Feldman, "Headin North" by Johnny Keating, "Salt Air" by Dave Lee, "Act One Scene One" by Kenny Baker's Half Dozen, and "Pittsburgh Opener" by Ronnie Scott. As a bonus, the set also features a full CD of American artists who were also making Soho hop at the time – work by Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, and others.

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