The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions of Ike Quebec collects a phenomenal body of work produced between 1959–62 by a key player in the Blue Note Story. The saxophonist had recorded for Blue Note and served as a talent scout in the 1940s before personal problems forced him off the scene. Alfred Lion began to reintroduce Quebec’s music to jazz fans in 1959 with a series of 45 jukebox singles that were well received and revealed a formidable stylist very much at the top of his game with a full-throated yet relaxed sound ideally suited to a range of material from ballads to blues.

Produced for release by Joe Harley, the 3-LP vinyl set is all-analog and cut directly from Rudy Van Gelder’s original master tapes by Kevin Gray. Pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, the LPs come packaged in a deluxe tip-on trifold jacket which includes a booklet with never-before-seen photos by Francis Wolff and an insightful, in-depth essay by scholar Loren Schoenberg.

LP1 — SIDE A
1. A Light Reprieve
2. Buzzard Lope
3. Blue Monday
4. Zonky

LP1 — SIDE B
1. Later For The Rock
2. Sweet And Lovely
3. Dear John
4. Blue Friday

LP2 — SIDE A
1. Everything Happens To Me [Short Version]
2. Mardi Gras
3. What A Difference A Day Makes
4. For All We Know
5. Ill Wind

LP2 — SIDE B
1. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. Me 'N Mabe
4. Everything Happens To Me [Long Version]
 
LP3 — SIDE A
1. How Long Has This Been Going On
2. With A Song In My Heart
3. Imagination
4. What Is There To Say?

LP3 — SIDE B
1. There Is No Greater Love
2. All Of Me
3. Intermezzo
4. But Not For Me
5. All The Way