A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP Blue Note his first album in 5

his first album in 5 years and the follow-up to his Blue Note debut Parking Lot Symphony

Lonnie Smith during his 75th birthday run at the Jazz Standard in NYC in 2017

” the feel-good theme “Sonny’s Mood

Norah mixed up the record with a focus on originals she and her band had written rounded out with a few jazz standards she loved

and Rob Burger on accordion and organ

A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP Blue Note his first album in 5Recorded in October 1961, A Fickle Sonance is a quintessential hard bop outing by Jackie McLean that also offered just a hint of the avant garde explorations the alto saxophonist was about to embark on in the years to come with the dissonances of the title tracks intro. Otherwise the fantastic quintetwith McLean joined by Tommy Turrentine on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on piano, and Billy Higgins on drumskept it firmly in the pocket on