AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Analogue Productions - ABNJ 84114  - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Mastered By Kevin Gray & Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering - Blue Note 84114 

Limited Edition - Pressed at RTI

Analogue Productions' Blue Note  Reissues WIN A Positive Feedback  Brutus Award! 
"...if you haven't picked up every one of the Blue Note , you're really missing out!" - David W. Robinson, Positive Feedback 

We did this one today. Very complicated (dynamic) and one of the best sounding Blue Notes I've ever heard!" – Mastering Engineer Steve Hoffman

s one of the best Blue Notes, alongside Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell.

"…As much as I'd love to relay all kinds of anecdotes about the challenges Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray encounter during the mastering sessions, I witness none. These boys know the sound of the facility and the Van Gelder masters like the backs of their hands…Back home a month later, I unpack some test pressings Chad  has sent me…I hear the most realistic-sounding drums ever reproduced by my system. It's as though I'm sitting at the point of creation, experiencing the same high that brought such gifted musicians together as one. Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray, Chad Kassem, and Don MacInnis have done Rudy Van Gelder and his Blue Note artists proud." – Jason Victor Serinus, Stereophile, 

This program of sultry, minor key music with a Brazilian tinge seems inspired by Ike Quebec, who was suffering from advanced cancer that would claim his life three months later. But here his big-toned, impassioned tenor is in tact.

Quebec's take on the bossa nova craze that exploded that year (1962) is more muscular than Stan Getz's and doesn't rely on the familiar Jobim and Gilberto songs of the day. He and Kenny Burrell solo on the sly, subtle rhythms of Wendell Marshall, Willie Bobo and Garvin Masseaux.

Willie Bobo, drums
Kenny Burrell, guitar
Wendell Marshall, bass
Gravin Masseaux, chekere
Ike Quebec, sax (tenor)

Ike Quebec Soul Samba Bossa Nova 

1. Loie  
2. Lloro Tu Despedida  
3. Goin' Home  
4. Me 'N You  
5. Liebestraum  
6. Shu Shu  
7. Blue Samba  
8. Favela  
9. Linda Flor