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Our audio excerpt starts right on the melody pickup. The eight-measure full band intro is also notated in the respective lead sheets. Second part editions are available, so the arrangement can be played in a quintet format, like the original recording. The AABA melody (ten-measure A sections) is Latin for the bridge, but stays swing for the solo choruses.
Now that longer tracks are available online, we can bring out Good Old Soul (it's over eight minutes long). It's fantastic that you have the opportunity to get the original track, so you can hear these great artists play the music they created. Both the master take and the alternate take are available.
Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks and his twin brother Harry were born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, becoming the youngest of eight children. The family moved to NYC in 1944. By then, Harold was already being called Tina (pronounced Teena), a grade school nickname that came from his tiny or teensy size. Around this time, he started playing the C Melody saxophone, studying with his 10 year older brother David "Bubba" Brooks, Jr. Bubba had become an established R&B tenor saxophonist, and in late 1950, Tina subbed for Bubba for a few months in pianist Sonny Thompson's R&B band. Tina made his first recording with this band. Read more...
