Nathan Davis – Happy Girl (1965/2025) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Nathan Davis – Happy Girl (1965/2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:24 minutes | 437 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

A hell of a hardbop classic – one of a handful of 60s European sessions recorded by the amazing Nathan Davis – an American player, but one whose work really took off when he headed overseas! The set’s done in a top-shelf style, put together by the MPS/Saba label – with a lineup that features a young Woody Shaw on trumpet, Jimmy Woode on bass, Billy Brooks on drums, and the great Larry Young on piano – making a rare European appearance here, and playing in an acoustic mode that’s very different than his famous Hammond jazz records for Blue Note! All players groove together in a soulful approach to hardbop that shows traces of modalism, and of the “new thing” exploration that Jackie McLean was bringing to some of his work around 1963 and 1964 – but with more of a swing, too – a soulful groove that really hangs right on the cusp.

Tracklist:

1-1. Nathan Davis – The Flute in the Blues (04:55)
1-2. Nathan Davis – Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most (07:04)
1-3. Nathan Davis – Happy Girl (07:20)
1-4. Nathan Davis – Evolution (07:15)
1-5. Nathan Davis – Theme from Zoltan (05:09)
1-6. Nathan Davis – Along Came Byrd (02:19)
1-7. Nathan Davis – Mister E (03:19)

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