Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJSAU-132.2 The first featured a sextet

The first featured a sextet with Johnson joined by the brilliant trumpeter Clifford Brown

ALL RISE brims with songs about irrepressible love

The two sessions were later combined for the 12” release The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson

The Secret of Christmas 2:45

This vanguard was raised in an atmosphere where pop and hip-hop and dance influenced their approaches to melody and harmony and rhythm

Tina Brooks: The Waiting Game LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJSAU-132.2 The first featured a sextetBlue Note, 1999 The Waiting Game was the unsung tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks' final album, recorded in 1961 but not released until 1999. Brooks is one of the most under appreciated tenor players and composers of the hard bop era, with only one of his four Blue Note sessions (the classic True Blue) released during his lifetime. Brooks is joined here by Johnny Coles on trumpet, Kenny Drew on piano, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.