Name: The Complete Jazz Modes Sessions
Brand: Charlie Rouse and Julius Watkins

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EJC55752

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-11-19

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8436559468626

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Artist

Charlie Rouse and Julius Watkins

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Jazz

Label GB

Essential Jazz Classics

Deluxe collectors' digipak presentation which includes 32-page booklet. 

The complete recordings by The Jazz Modes, an experimental small jazz formation fronted by Charlie Rouse on tenor sax and Julius Watkins on French horn, plus Gildo Mahones on piano. With slight personnel variations, this group recorded a total of five albums, most of which are now very hard to find. All these albums are included here in their entirety and in chronological order.

A member of big bands, among them those of Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington, Charlie Rouse is best remembered for his more than ten years as a member of the Thelonious Monk Quartet.

One of the first and probably the best jazz French horn player, Julius Watkins recorded with numerous jazz greats, including John Coltrane, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Quincy Jones, Johnny Griffin, Randy Weston, and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra.

As a bonus, three further complete albums are included, all of which were originally issued as 10" LPs. Oscar Pettiford's "Oscar Rides Again" is the only other existing album, outside of the Jazz Modes body of work, to feature both Rouse and Watkins in the front line. The two volumes by the Julius Watkins Sextet, on the other hand, present Watkins in the company of other celebrated tenor saxophonists: Frank Foster and Hank Mobley.

The Complete Jazz Modes Sessions

Music GB