Hard Cookin’ - Charlie Rouse / Frank Foster / Arthur Taylor – Vinyl LP Record (VG+)
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Charlie Rouse / Frank Foster / Arthur Taylor – Hard Cookin’
Genre: Jazz (Hard Bop)
A tight, hard-driving session originally recorded for Prestige, pairing two powerful tenor voices in Charlie Rouse and Frank Foster with the rock-solid rhythm team of Walter Davis (piano), Sam Jones (bass) and Arthur Taylor (drums). The repertoire balances Monk’s angular wit with muscular blues lines and sophisticated bop phrasing, delivering a straight-ahead mid-’60s hard bop date with real punch and swing.
This South African pressing (Teal Record Co., Jazz Originals series, JOR 2014) presents the classic Prestige material in clean, minimalist packaging. A strong player copy for collectors of Prestige-era hard bop, especially those following Rouse beyond his Monk associations or Foster outside the Basie context.
