BUDDY COLLETTE QUINTET - CD BUDDY'S BEST

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The Boplicity label was one of the earliest entries into the jazz reissue market in the mid 1980s. In 2013 Ace is re-launching the label as the home for their small but distinct catalogue of 1950s and 1960s modern jazz. Each of the releases will strive for the highest quality in sound reproduction, mastered from fresh transfers from first generation mastertapes, and featuring bonus tracks where relevant. The first selections come from the small but distinctive catalogue of Dootsie Williams' Dootone label. All have been remastered from source tapes, have fresh sleeve notes and are packaged in a digipack. Collette was a pioneering jazz flautist and saxophonist, and one of the earliest be-boppers on the West Coast. A member of the mid-50s Chico Hamilton group he was key to what was known as the Cool School of west coast jazz. He was a more straight ahead player than that might imply. He spent a great deal of time in film and television orchestras so he was largely under-recorded as a leader; consequently his Dootone album has become a collector's item. Unlike the other Dootone jazz LPs, Collette's album has a highly arranged sound typical of west coast jazz. Al Viola's guitar is an especially prominent foil to the array of reed instruments played by Collette and Earl Palmer's drumming offers a fine counterpoint. The original tapes have given us an alternate take of Soft Touch only available on a rare Bel Canto LP pairing Collette tracks with some Curtis Counce.