In the context of 1965 jazz,
Brew Moore
was very much out-of-place. A cool-toned tenor whose hero was
Lester Young
,
Moore
was able to carve out his own sound but he seemed a decade behind many of the pacesetters of the mid-'60s. He spent his last years in Europe and after 1962 was only captured on record on three occasions, all live dates: a pair of radio broadcasts cut two weeks apart in 1965 (and both reissued on CD by SteepleChase) and a marathon 1971 date that resulted in releases for Storyville and Sonet.
Brew Moore's
neglect is quite unfortunate for, on evidence of this particular outing in Copenhagen with pianist
Atli Bjorn
, bassist
Benny Nielsen
and drummer
William Schiopffe
still had a lot to offer. He stretches out quite successfully on four swing-oriented tunes (including the blues
"Svinget 14"
and
Fats Waller's
"Zonky") along with a shorter rendition of "Blue Monk." ~ Scott Yanow