Charlie Rouse & Julius Watkins - The Complete Jazz Modes Sessions / 3CD set

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 of these LPs 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.

Also includes three further complete albums, 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.

Tracklisting

    Disc 1
        1. Dancing On The Ceiling
        2. Legend
        3. Temptation
        4. Episode
        5. Dancing In The Dark
        6. Goodbye
        7. Town And Country
        8. When The Blues Comes On
        9. Blue Modes
        10. You Are Too Beautiful
        11. So Far
        12. Idle Evening
        13. Garden Delights
        14. Strange Tale
        15. Two Songs
        16. Stallion
        17. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
        18. Autumn Leaves
        19. The Golden Chariot 2
        20. Let S Try
        21. Bohemia
        22. Catch Her
    Disc 2
        1. Hoo Tai
        2. Mood In Scarlet
        3. Linda Delia
        4. I Ve Got You Under My Skin
        5. We Can Talk It Over
        6. Standing On The Corner
        7. Joey, Joey, Joey
        8. Warm All Over
        9. Happy To Make Your Acquaintance
        10. My Heart Is So Full Of You
        11. The Most Happy Fella
        12. Don T Cry
        13. Like A Woman
        14. Somebody Somewhere
        15. The Oblong
        16. 1-2-3-4-0 In Syncopation
        17. Blue Flame
        18. Mood In Motion
    Disc 3
        1. Knittin
        2. This N That
        3. Glad That I Found You
        4. Princess
        5. Sextette
        6. The Golden Touch
        7. Cable Car
        8. Trictrotism
        9. Edge Of Love
        10. Oscar Rides Again
        11. Linda Delia
        12. Perpetuation
        13. I Have Known
        14. Leete
        15. Garden Delights
        16. Julie Ann
        17. Sparkling Burgundy
        18. B And D
        19. Jordu