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| Leapin' & Lopin' | 
| Artist: Sonny Clark
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2963
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099921536625
ASIN: B001CARI7U
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Somethin' Special | | • | Deep in a Dream - Sonny Clark, VanHeusen, J. | | • | Melody for C | | • | Eric Walks - Sonny Clark, Warren, Butch | | • | Voodoo | | • | Midnight Mambo - Sonny Clark, Turrentine, Tommy | | • | Zellmar's Delight | | • | Melody for C |
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| Customer Reviews:
The Disinterested Magic of Sonny Clark! September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thanks to the remastering we really get inside the tenor tones of Charlie Rouse and the singing quality of Tommy Turrentine's much neglected trumpet. With Butch Warren on bass, Sonny Clark on piano and our man Higgins on drums, this was the in house rhythm section for Blue Note that provided so much outstanding back up to so many other legendary sessions as well as this one.
Sonny Clark's style of piano playing is audacious in the most unlikely way. For much of the time he hovers over the middle section of the keyboard as if inviting criticisms of blandness but his weaving, alternating line soon becomes irresistible. A first rate composer, he had a direct and lyrical simplicity that reminds me of Tina Brooks. 'Voodoo', a Clark original, I could quiet easily let run all night long. What a perfect composition to show off the singing, sky writing quality of Turrentine. During the fade out, as the horns maintain the head, Clark lets himself off the leash and starts meandering with those magical alternations that unwind like a ribbon. It's at that point, caught in the melodic web, you wish there was no end!
There's a certain inherent contradiction to his playing; a disinterested involvement. It all sounds deceptively easy but when Clark passed away and the in house rhythm section took on the wonderful Barry Harris, inevitably the placement of notes weren't quite the same and the unconscious flow became self conscious.
Ike Quebec's tenor sax guest appearance on `Deep in a Dream' adds to the lustre of this disk that finds Sonny Clark off loading a carnival of dance patterns for anybody with a foot tapping itch.
An Individualist on Ivory September 16, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Sonny Clark had something special in regards to his instrument: he had an identity. Like Dexter Gordon or Ike Quebec on the tenor sax, Charlie Parker or Jackie Mclean on the alto, Clifford Brown or Miles Davis on the trumpet, Scott La faro or Paul Chambers on bass, and Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols, or Bud Powell on piano, you didn't need a program to tell you that Sonny was on the ivory. Along with "Cool Struttin'" this is the album that captures what Clark could do when some brass was along for the ride. Charlie Rouse, who was so superb with Monk, shows that there was none better on sax when it came to givng his pianist/leaders what they wanted. The older, lesser known Turrentine does honor to the family name, and butch warren and billy higgins are excellent as always, but an added treat is hearing the deep voice of Ike Quebec's tenor on 'deep in a dream', a elegant, languid, tune whose whistful, romantic quality was tailor made for the emotional musings of Quebec. In many ways this song reminds me of the great version of "In a sentimental mood" that was the highlight of the album Coltrane and Ellington created. In anycase this is an album that has the unity of a certain mellow-cool-tone, while at the same time shows enough jagged edges beneath the smooth-liquid-surface to keep things very interesting. Sonny Clark was always appreciated in accompaniment, but personally I appreciate the opprotunity to hear something of his own conception. Sonny Clark was one of the great individualists on ivory, a rare and beautiful breed.
*Note: this is a review of the non-RVG edition of this album.
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