Something Blue

Paul Horn, alto sax, flute, clarinet; Paul Moer (Moerschbacher), piano; Emil Richard , vibraphone; Jimmy Bond, bass ; Billy Higgins, drums; producer, David Axelrod (HiFi Jazz A&R), liner notes Gene Lees, recorded Los Angeles, October 27, 1959, released March 1960.

All Music awarded 4/5 stars: “Years before Paul Horn became famous for his pioneering new age and mood music albums, he was an adventurous bop-based improviser trying to create an alternative to the hard bop music of the era.” He was trying to do it with West Coast sensibility. It’s Something Blue, not Somethin’ Blue, Cannonball would add, you know what I’m sayin’?