Duke Jordan
Flight to Denmark
SteepleChase/Nippon Phonogram (Japan) 1974
SCS-1011 (LP) obi (SPSE/TOC: torn top edge/tape repair)
sleeve : VG+ (stains)
media : EX-/EX- (slight surface noise/some light surface noise in parts)
American pianist Duke Jordan, a master who honed his skills under Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, and Art Farmer, and graced the jazz scene from the 1950s onward with Sonny Stitt and Stan Getz, released this masterpiece album in 1974 from the excellent Danish jazz label SteepleChase. It features recordings made in Copenhagen with drummer Ed Thigpen and Danish bassist Mads Vinding as a trio. Jordan's consistently calm and simply wonderful piano, weaving lyrical melodies under the snowy Nordic sky, is what makes this album a masterpiece. This is a domestic pressing with an obi, released in the same year as the Danish original. It appears an insert was not originally included, but the obi has liner notes on the back.
A1: No Problem
B1: How Deep Is The Ocean