Jimmy Lyons Quintet - We Sneezawee (1983)

...Karen Borca also appears to great effect on "Wee Sneezawee", perhaps the most conventional of these discs in freebop terms but a similarly invigorating session. Only on the brief, uncharacteristic "Ballada", with which the album ends, does Lyons occupy the foreground. It's immediately clear that his fey, slightly detached tone doesn't entail an absence of feeling; the closing track is a sad monument to a fading career.

(The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD - Ninth Edition)


1. Wee Sneezawee
2. Gossip
3. Remembrance
4. Shackinback
5. Driads


Jimmy Lyons (alto sax); Karen Borca (bassoon); Raphé Malik (trumpet); William Parker (bass); Paul Murphy (drums).

Recorded at September 26 & 27, 1983 at Vanguard Studios, New York.