Mean What You Say by
Philly Joe Jones
I had to skip over about three PJJ albums because I couldn’t find them online so I’m moving on to this one. Unfortunate too because one with an all Italian band looks really interesting. Thankfully, a kind soul put this one up on youtube. It bounces from hard bop to cool. The band may not be stacked with big names but everybody steps up. Pianist
Mickey Tucker whose most impressive credit imo is on Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s Blacknuss pushes forward with an aggressive hard bop agenda and sax player
Charles Bowen composed a cool ballad and has some excellent pre-modal era Coltrane inspired passages. And Jones does his thing, of course.