Shades Of Blue by Don Rendell Ian Carr Quintet, released on Columbia as part of their Landsdowne series in 1965.

Gerald Lascelles wrote in a contemporary review in Jazz Journal:

The quintet stimulates a remarkably fresh feeling, and reveals little in the way of ad­herence to any particular jazz form. The leader’s constant shifts from tenor to soprano keep the front line alive and variable in tone contrast, and there is a constancy in the rhythmic re­sponse which is quite rare and always animated.

Ian Carr, who has been working with Don since the beginning of 1963, provides some splendid moments in solo work, ...Garrison ’64 is quite an ambitious approach to the new patterns set by Coltrane, Davis, and the other leaders of style today. It would be wrong to describe it as free form, but it conveys the same loose feeling.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/08/14/jj-08-65-don-rendell-ian-carr-shades-of-blue/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxCVrN8X9E&list=OLAK5uy_lfb6d-fprKIVSVIRJ16NAYeQHlzGj75Es

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Shades Of Blue by Don Rendell Ian Carr Quintet, released on Columbia as part of their Landsdowne series in 1965.

Gerald Lascelles wrote in a contemporary review in Jazz Journal:

The quintet stimulates a remarkably fresh feeling, and reveals little in the way of ad­herence to any particular jazz form. The leader’s constant shifts from tenor to soprano keep the front line alive and variable in tone contrast, and there is a constancy in the rhythmic re­sponse which is quite rare and always animated.

Ian Carr, who has been working with Don since the beginning of 1963, provides some splendid moments in solo work, ...Garrison ’64 is quite an ambitious approach to the new patterns set by Coltrane, Davis, and the other leaders of style today. It would be wrong to describe it as free form, but it conveys the same loose feeling.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/08/14/jj-08-65-don-rendell-ian-carr-shades-of-blue/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxCVrN8X9E&list=OLAK5uy_lfb6d-fprKIVSVIRJ16NAYeQHlzGj75Es

#IanCarr #DonRendell #Jazz #BritJazz #Music #Landsdowne #Modal

Dusk Fire by Don Rendell Ian Carr 5tet, released on Columbia in 1966.

Kenneth Bridgham wrote on Allmusic:

A superb blending of both jazz and classic elements into a third stream. Both the concept and the trumpet sound are very obviously indebted to Miles Davis, but that does not change the fact that this is beautiful music to behold, whether one is looking to intensely focus on the minimalism of every note or just medidate to the overall experience.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2019/06/12/don-rendell-ian-carr-quintet-dusk-fire/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw9a232j7tU&list=PLAeiyKcSz5mI53g6TQ2oQ8BOfXzeh1rkm&index=1

#IanCarr #DonRendell #MichaelGarrick #BritJazz #Jazz #Music #ThirdStream

Dusk Fire by Don Rendell Ian Carr 5tet, released on Columbia in 1966.

Kenneth Bridgham wrote on Allmusic:

A superb blending of both jazz and classic elements into a third stream. Both the concept and the trumpet sound are very obviously indebted to Miles Davis, but that does not change the fact that this is beautiful music to behold, whether one is looking to intensely focus on the minimalism of every note or just medidate to the overall experience.

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2019/06/12/don-rendell-ian-carr-quintet-dusk-fire/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw9a232j7tU&list=PLAeiyKcSz5mI53g6TQ2oQ8BOfXzeh1rkm&index=1

#IanCarr #DonRendell #MichaelGarrick #BritJazz #Jazz #Music #ThirdStream