sgt1372<p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jazz</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/LPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LPs</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vinyl</span></a></p><p>After watching the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PBS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PBS</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/AmericanMasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanMasters</span></a> program on the life of the virtuoso pianist <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/HazelScott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HazelScott</span></a>, I was reminded that I have her album "Relaxed Piano Moods" in my LP collection.</p><p>What's really interesting about this album apart from it's delightful sound is that while Scott is the lead player, her "backup" players for <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MaxRoach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaxRoach</span></a> & <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CharlesMingus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesMingus</span></a> who (at the time (1955) were just emerging as two of the greatest <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ModernJazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ModernJazz</span></a> (<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PostBop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostBop</span></a>) musicians of the era who have since become legends of jazz.</p><p>Roach had only started playing with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Brownie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brownie</span></a> (<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CliffordBrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CliffordBrown</span></a>) in 1954 (who tragically died in a car accident just 2 years later) and it was only a year later in 1956 that <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Mingus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mingus</span></a> released his epic album "Pithecanthropus Erectus."</p><p>It is also notable the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/DebutRecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DebutRecords</span></a> which was the label that released this recording was founded by Roach & Mingus in 1952 (& went out of business in 1957) and that they thought so highly of Scott that they presumably volunteered to serve as her sidemen on the album!</p>