Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan - Sprint (1982) [2013 Japan 24-bit Remaster] CD-Rip

Features 24 bit remastering and comes with a mini-description. A tremendous live performance from the group co-led by Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan – two players who really bring a lot to each other's music! There's a mode here that really blows us away – a careful, sensitive approach that allows each horn player to hit their most lyrical moments – shading things in with a far richer palette of sounds than we might ever have expected. The rest of the group's a big factor for the album's sound, though – as it features the great pianist Garry Dial, who also wrote some of the tunes – plus Jay Anderson on bass and Jeff Hirschfield on drums. Rodney plays trumpet and flugelhorn, and Sullivan plays flute, flugelhorn, alto, and soprano sax – on titles that include "How Do You Know", "As Time Goes By", "Sprint", "My Son The Minstrel", and "Speak Like A Child".
The last of six LPs by the Red Rodney-Ira Sullivan Quintet was also the band's finest. There are times in the music (which consists of three originals by pianist Garry Dial, Herbie Hancock's "Speak Like a Child" and "As Time Goes By") where the group sounds like the early Ornette Coleman Quartet. The setting and advanced repertoire clearly challenged Rodney (who mostly sticks here to flugelhorn) and inspired Sullivan (switching between alto, alto flute, soprano and flugelhorn). A post-bop gem, one of Rodney's finest recordings.


Tracks:

01. How Do You Know (Dial) - 7:23
02. As Time Goes By (Hupfeld) - 7:36
03. Sprint (Dial) - 7:36
04. My Son, The Minstrel (Dial) - 6:05
05. Speak Like a Child (Hancock) - 11:47

Personnel:

Red Rodney - flugelhorn (#1,2,4,5), trumpet (#3)
Ira Sullivan - alto flute (#1,5), alto saxophone (#1-3), soprano saxophone (#4), flugelhorn (#5)
Garry Dial - piano
Jay Anderson - bass
Jeff Hirshfield - drums