A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP Blue Note The Squirrel

The Squirrel

Hear the new song “Just a Little Bit

Norah mixed up the record with a focus on originals she and her band had written rounded out with a few jazz standards she loved

and Rob Burger on accordion and organ

the record focuses on posing outward questions instead of inward contemplation

A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP Blue Note The SquirrelRecorded in October 1961, A Fickle Sonance is a quintessential hard bop outing by Jackie McLean that also offered just a hint of the avant garde explorations the alto saxophonist was about to embark on in the years to come with the dissonances of the title tracks intro. Otherwise the fantastic quintetwith McLean joined by Tommy Turrentine on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on piano, and Billy Higgins on drumskept it firmly in the pocket on