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David Reaboi's avatar

Excellent post, as always. I had no idea about the Roulette sessions with Higgins! There’s a RSD EP release from 2016 with four tracks available on Discogs I’ll have to grab. Higgins sounds always sounds so good--not being a drummer, it took me a while to appreciate him on the more straight ahead Blue Note titles.

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james's avatar

thanks for pointing out the coltrane cd - for sonny... there is a youtube link for anyone who'd like to listen to it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxpcNz1g81w

i especially liked the last 5 tracks with ray draper on tuba soloing.. one rarely hears that sort of thing today.... - the sound quality is pretty poor for listening to the drums, but track 2 you can hear how higgins approaches coltranes sound and writing from a different angle then elvin jones...

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