This is an odd LP. The first session is a conventional one with vibraphonist
Milt Jackson, tenor-saxophonist
Jimmy Heath, pianist
Tommy Flanagan, bassist
Richard Davis and drummer
Connie Kay performing
Heath's recent "Gingerbread Boy,"
Duke Ellington's "I Got It Bad" and a pair of
Jackson originals. The flip side substitutes two guitars for
Flanagan's piano and uses bossa nova rhythms in hopes of getting a hit.
Milt does play well on "I Love You" and
Lillian Clark's vocal on "Jazz 'N' Samba" is fine but "The Oo-Oo Bossa Noova" is strictly for those listeners who are nostalgic for Car 54, Where Are You. ~ Scott Yanow