Spike Robinson - the Live Session | Spike Robinson Quartet

Spike Robinson - the Live Session

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WolfOfOwOStreet Heard this on an episode of Jazz Record Requests on BBC Radio 3 (specifically "I should care") and fell in love with it. There's a vibe with this that's most agreeable. Favorite track: Everything Happens to Me.

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1.	Everything Happens to Me 05:02	info
2.	Love Letters 05:43	info
3.	Emily 05:21	info
4.	Groovin' High 05:51	info
5.	Like Someone in Love 05:28	info
6.	You've Changed 07:01	info
7.	Autumn Leaves 06:42	info
8.	A Fine Romance 05:55	info
9.	Nancy (With the Laughing Face) 06:56	info
10.	Doxy 05:59	info
11.	I Should Care 07:50	info
12.	Tangerine 06:30	info
13.	Dancing in the Dark 04:59	info
14.	Fools Rush In 06:08	info
15.	It Could Happen to You 05:46	info
16.	Alone Together 04:54	info
17.	Au Privave 04:43	info

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Recorded ca. 1974 by Dick Patterson, Likely at The Lost Knight Lounge, Boulder, CO.

In any music, there is elegant balance to be found between the familiar and the surprise. An improvised line, or unexpected turns in an arrangement, bring a listener the joy of again “discovering” a familiar song.

The interplay of familiarity is plain to hear in Spike Robinson’s working group of the early-mid 1970s. The group were good friends, and, in playing their repertoire a lot together, achieved a certain relaxed freedom of melodicism, interplay, and swing. The surprises of improvisation are strangely easier to find when the setting is comfortable.

Because record companies did not offer Spike the chance to record with this group at the time, our father decided to document what they played live. The setup was familiar: they used the club during off-hours for a quiet setting to record (sometimes you can hear a person working in the background).

The performances were like their sets. Three sets of music were recorded in an afternoon; everything was first takes, with no stopping or editing. The order presented here is just as they played it.

The resulting interplay of the group flows in a way that is difficult to achieve in a recording studio with time pressures. Spike sounds musically at home, wearing comfortable slippers, perhaps at his melodic best. Dale’s musical choices have an ideal and subtle logic; Dick and Derryl’s swing connects magnetically. Most of all, the group speaks in an unburdened voice, from the bebop flow of “Groovin’ High” to the lyricism of “Everything Happens to Me.”.

We hope you enjoy hearing this genuine piece of the “sound of surprise” this well-loved quartet created.

Mark and Craig Patterson

Another in the continuing series of classic recordings that have never been heard, Mark and Craig Patterson have produced a true masterpiece of Jazz.

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released January 20, 2024

Dick Patterson, Bass
Dale Bruning, Guitar
Derryl Goes, Drums
Mastered by Craig Patterson
Executive Producer Mark Patterson

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Dick Patterson Evergreen, Colorado

Starting at the age of 15, Dick played trombone for the Cliff Kyes Orchestra and Claude Thornhill. In 1963, he moved to Colorado and took up the bass, playing with such artists as Clark Terry, The Pointer Sisters, Johnny Smith, Peanuts Hucko, Jerry Lewis, Spike Robinson, Neil Bridge, Stew Jackson, Dean Bushnell, Bob Montgomery, Dave and Don Grusin, Claude Thornhill again on bass, and many others. ... more