Artist: Johnny Coles
Album:  Little Johnny C
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop, Trumpet Jazz, Jazz Instrument
Item Number:  AWMXR-0006
Brand/Label/Format: XRCD 24 Audio Wave/Blue Note
Recorded: 1963
Release Date: 2010

Tracklisting
1. Little Johnny C.
2. Hobo Joe
3. Jano
4. My Secret Passion
5. Heavy Legs
6. So Sweet (My Little Girl)  

Musicians:
Johnny Coles (trumpet)
Duke Pearson (piano)
Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone)
Leo Wright (flute, alto saxophone)
Bob Crenshaw (bass)
Walter Perkins (drums)
Pete La Roca (drums)

Features: 
• Mastered and produced by Alan Yoshida and Joe Harley from the Original Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note 2-Track Analog Tapes!
• Highest Quality Analog-to-Digital transfers from tape to CD
• Deluxe Packaging with Hi-Resolution Black & White Session Photos.
• Includes Original Album Liner Notes
• XRCD24 is Compatible with ALL CD PLAYERS! 


Review by Scott Yanow (Allmusic)   
Although this Blue Note session (reissued on CD in 1996) is led by trumpeter Johnny Coles, pianist Duke Pearson (who contributed the arrangements and five of the six compositions) really functioned as leader. The typically impressive Blue Note lineup (which includes Leo Wright on alto and flute, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and either Walter Perkins or Pete LaRoca on drums, in addition to Coles and Pearson) handles the obscure material with creative invention. Most memorable are the catchy title cut and the somber ballad "So Sweet My Little Girl." Cole's brittle trumpet is the lead voice throughout, although the young Joe Henderson was already instantly recognizable. 
 
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Detailed Description
Trumpeter Johnny Coles, a distinctive and passionate player best known for his associations with Gil Evans, the remarkable Charles Mingus Quintet of 1964, and Herbie Hancock’s late 60’s Sextet, led relatively few albums of his own, and only two before 1982. Recorded in 1963, Little Johnny C is universally recognized as Johnny Coles’ finest recording. Cole’s soulful trumpet is heard in superb form as he pushes the hard bop mainstream forward. Duke Pearson, who was both a very skilled pianist, as well as one of the top arrangers of the 1960s, contributes five very fresh originals to the set. Notably, Little Johnny C is also one of tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson’s finest early recordings – his round sound and innovative phrasing clearly evident at this early point in his career. With the superb title cut, the ballad “So Sweet My Little Girl”, and “Jano” being high-points, in addition to beautiful flute and alto solos contributed by Leo Wright, “Little Johnny C” is a masterful album by an artist at his creative peak. This is a set to be savored again and again.

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