Ike Quebec – Bossa Nova Soul Samba (LP Vinyl)

Ike Quebec spent most of the 1950s sidelined by addiction, and his early-60s Blue Note comeback ranks among the most quietly triumphant second acts in jazz history. Recorded in 1962, this session finds his warm, woody tenor in conversation with the Brazilian wave then sweeping New York, landing somewhere between bop vocabulary and bossa nova rhythm without fully belonging to either.