open sesame

i can not get enough of blue note at the moment, and love the fact that i happen to live directly above a record store that has a whole heap of the blue note back catalogue that they are flogging off really cheap. although i happen to be rather skint at the moment, i can still manage a meagre $10 out of my budget to add another album to my collection once a week.
and with every album i add to my collection, it means i have to rearrange my music collection in my own obsessive-compulsive way so that everything will fit and that certains genres are all grouped together etc.
it was during one of these crazy periods or rearranging that i rediscovered the joys of this little hard-bop masterpiece from 1960, trumpeter freddie hubbard's debut album "open sesame". in particular, i am loving his versions of 2 fantastic little tina brooks numbers (who accompanies hubbard on tenor sax, along with mccoy tyner, sam jones and clifford jarvis) the title track "open sesame" and "gypsy blue".
check out more of hubbard and his trumpet, both as a band leader and with artists such as herbie hancock, art blakey's jazz messengers and (as always, referring back to previous posts, http://armchairsuperhero.blogspot.com/2009/07/ascension.html) on john coltrane's album "ascension"