In between all the modal and avant-garde stuff I’ve been listening to lately it’s quite nice to put on a more straight ahead hard bop date, like this newly acquired Idrees Sulieman title on the wonderful Steeplechase label. Recorded on the 16th and 17th of February in 1976, and I was born on the 15th of February of that year, so a day after they started to record this, which is quite cool.
I haven’t got much of Sulieman’s work in the collection but he was a great trumpeter and this album is a testament to that. He’s got a really great band backing him as well in Cedar Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins.
I really enjoy this one and you probably will too if you appreciate classic hard bop, albeit recorded on the mid 70’s. Recommended!