The Curtis Counce Group

US 1990 Reissue, Remastered. Sleeve EX. The Kansas City-born bassist Curtis Counce(1926-1963) worked mainly in Los Angeles and formed his own quintet in 1956. This was their third album recorded for CONTEMPORARY at various sessions during 1957 & 1958 with Counce(bass); Harold Land(tenor sax); Jack Sheldon or Gerald Wilson(trumpet); Carl Perkins(piano) & Frank Butler(drums). The seven enjoyable tracks from this well-integrated and underrated group include originals from Sheldon, Perkins & Butler(a drum solo), one tune each from Horace Silver & Clifford Brown and two standards. 'Carl's Blues' is an excellent album of swinging West Coast hard bop which deserves to be more widely known.