ALBUMS: Our Thing (1964, RE Blue Note 1985)
MVC Rating: 5.0/$$$$$
Another Blue Note reissue. Another great jazz album.
It’s the bop era, late 50s, early 60s. The drumming is always setting pace. –doh doh doh chicka doe.
A little bass, boom boom de boom. Piano, tinkle tinkle.
Then Henderson blows the sax…. whaa whoa whaa whoa whee whah, wha whump.
There you go my note-for-note rendition of Teeter Totter. which is an up B-flat blues, says a Youtuber. It is the only major key track in the set. I’ll try to pull a video of it.
Meanwhile, however many solos Henderson takes, the light but steady and ready Tap Tap Tap Tap continues on the drum and cymbal. This song I can watch the news to. Of course turning the volume off the TV.
Gordon’s music has a way of putting the daily disasters in their place.
Its more fun than progressive rock.
So putting that fun aside, this is seriously good jazz from a jazz rich era. The band is tight and Henderson’s keeps it all reeled in, even when it seems it’s not.