Minor Move is an album by American hard bop tenor Tina Brooks

Tina Brooks

Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer.-Early years:Harold Floyd Brooks was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was the brother of David "Bubba" Brooks. The nickname "Tina", pronounced Teena, was a slight variation of "Teeny", a childhood moniker....

. It features performances by Brooks, Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan

Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...

, Sonny Clark

Sonny Clark

Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.-Biography:...

, Doug Watkins

Doug Watkins

Douglas Watkins was an American hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.-Biography:An original member of the Jazz Messengers, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins,...

 and Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....

. It was recorded on March 16, 1958, and was Brooks' first album as a leader for Blue Note Records. The album, however, was shelved for years until being issued in Japan in 1980, as Blue Note GXF-3072. Only in 2000, Minor Move was released on CD on a limited edition, now obviously out-of-print. The piece "Nutville" is sometimes credited to Lee Morgan, but in truth, as Cuscuna explains in the liner notes to the 2000 reprint, "Lee brought the tune to the session, but never claimed credit for it. Curtis Fuller

Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is an American jazz trombonist, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributor to many classic jazz recordings.-Biography:...

 also confirms that it was indeed a Tina Brooks original."

Track listing

1. "Nutville" (Brooks) - 8:52
2. "The Way You Look Tonight
   The Way You Look Tonight
   "The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was sung to Ginger Rogers as Penelope "Penny" Carroll by Astaire's character of John "Lucky" Garnett while Penny was busy...
   
   " (Kern, Fields) - 10:41
3. "Star Eyes" (Rate, Paul)- 8:15
4. "Minor Move" (Brooks) - 6:40
5. "Everything Happens to Me
   Everything Happens to Me (song)
   Everything Happens to Me is a classic pop song written by Tom Adair and Matt Dennis in 1940. It was first recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, featuring his then-singer, Frank Sinatra....
   
   " (Dennis, Adair) - 6:10
6. "Minor Move" [Alternate Take] - 6:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

• Tina Brooks
  Tina Brooks
  Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and composer.-Early years:Harold Floyd Brooks was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and was the brother of David "Bubba" Brooks. The nickname "Tina", pronounced Teena, was a slight variation of "Teeny", a childhood moniker....
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Lee Morgan
  Lee Morgan
  Edward Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter.-Biography:...
  
   - trumpet
• Sonny Clark
  Sonny Clark
  Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark was an American jazz pianist who mainly worked in the hard bop idiom.-Biography:...
  
   - piano
• Doug Watkins
  Doug Watkins
  Douglas Watkins was an American hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.-Biography:An original member of the Jazz Messengers, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins,...
  
   - bass
• Art Blakey
  Art Blakey
  Arthur "Art" Blakey , known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community....
  
  - drums