This Contemporary Yellow Label MONO LP is West Coast Jazz at its best!
One quality of this side one that really took us by surprise was how DYNAMIC it is. The second track gets loud in a way that only one or two out of a hundred records does.
This is about the number of records we play in a week and I would have to say that no other record this week was more dynamic, hence the rough estimate above.
Side One
A+ to A++, with rich, smooth, lovely West Coast jazz sound. The horns can get a bit hard when loud.
Check out the dynamics on track two — Wow!
Side Two
A+ to A++, clean and lively. Zero smear and nearly as dynamic as side one. Track two, more than fifteen minutes long, is richer than track one by the way.
TRACK LISTING
Side One
Moose the Mooche
The Wind
Pint of Blues
Side Two
Tommyhawk
Quartet