Minor Move

Minor Move
Studio album by Tina Brooks
Released	1980
Recorded	March 16, 1958 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:38
Label	Blue Note GXF 3072 (1980) Blue Note 22671 (2000)
Producer	Alfred Lion
Tina Brooks chronology
Minor Move (1958) True Blue (1960)
Alternate Album Cover
Original 1980 LP

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Allmusic	[1]

Minor Move is an album by American hard bop tenor Tina Brooks. It features performances by Brooks, Lee Morgan, Sonny Clark, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. It was recorded on March 16, 1958, and was Brooks' first album as a leader for Blue Note Records. The album, however, was shelved for years until being issued in Japan in 1980, as Blue Note GXF 3072. Only in 2000, Minor Move was released on CD on a limited edition, now obviously out-of-print. The piece "Nutville" is sometimes credited to Lee Morgan, but in truth, as Cuscuna explains in the liner notes to the 2000 reprint, "Lee brought the tune to the session, but never claimed credit for it. Curtis Fuller also confirms that it was indeed a Tina Brooks original." ^[2]

Track listing

1. "Nutville" (Brooks) - 8:52
2. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 10:41
3. "Star Eyes" (Gene De Paul, Don Raye)- 8:15
4. "Minor Move" (Brooks) - 6:40
5. "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) - 6:10
6. "Minor Move" [Alternate Take] - 6:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

• Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone
• Lee Morgan - trumpet
• Sonny Clark - piano
• Doug Watkins - bass
• Art Blakey - drums

References

1. Allmusic Review
2. Liner notes by Michael Cuscuna