1. Table chess	2:44
2. Cold Bordeaux blues	2:29
3. Mellow mood	2:49			play	
4. Orange mist	4:21	
5. Tall grass	3:00
6. Kiss of Spain	3:21
7. Midnight moonlight	2:08
8. Lady Dingbat		3:29			play
9. Misty Thursday	5:46
10. W'utless	3:30	
11. Night train from Snekkersten	3:15	
12. Hymn to peace	2:20
13. Lady Linda	3:35
14. Glad I met Pat	4:03
15. Lesson in love	3:14	
16. Wait and see	3:09
17. Gabrielle's wish	3:18	
18. Undecided lady	3:20
19. Paula	3:19

Duke Jordan – piano

Duke Jordan has long been known in the jazz community as one of our finest expatriate musicians, having spent much time in Europe (especially Denmark) playing with the best European musicians (notably Nils-Henning Orsted Pederson). His modest but swinging accounts of jazz standards are milestones of taste and musicianship. But in addition to his performance of other peoples' material, Jordan's own compositions are delightful and original musical miniatures. Though the best-known of these, "Jordu", is not included in this collection, many of the rest are here and in the companion Volume Two. Recorded in 1979, these little gems are tuneful, toe-tapping exercises in straight-ahead jazz harmonics. In much the same way that Vivaldi explored 18th century harmony in his multitude of concertos, or Bach showed us what counterpoint could do in the Art of Fugue, Jordan takes us on a myriad of journeys through the musical language of bebop and blues, each tune adding a new twist or variation to well-known and popular harmonic progressions. I could do without the strange and uninspiring cover art, but this is music that will make you smile and brighten your day. --- Daniel Dropko (Vermilion, OH United States)

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1 	Forecast	4:46
2 	Sultry Eve	3:56
3 	They Can't Take That Away From Me	4:35
4 	Night In Tunisia	5:09
5 	Summertime	4:25
6 	Flight To Jordan	4:43
7 	Two Lovers	3:07
8 	Cu-Ba	3:32
9 	Yesterdays	5:45
10 	Scotch Blues	4:37

Baritone Saxophone – Cecil Payne (tracks: 6 to 10)
Bass – Percy Heath
Drums – Art Brakey
Piano – Duke Jordan
Trombone – Eddie Bert (tracks: 6 to 10)

The title of this 1955 Savoy release by pianist Duke Jordan succinctly points to the set's merits and shortcomings. The five trio performances with Art Blakey (drums) and Percy Heath (bass) work well. The five tracks from the same group augmented by Cecil Payne (baritone sax) and Eddie Bert (trombone) don't come up to the mark. For the trio tracks, Jordan's elegant, swinging bop style is the main attraction, with Blakey and Heath providing appropriately understated support. "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Night in Tunisia" are each given fresh reworkings. Jordan's upbeat "Forecast" and his meditative ballad "Sultry Eve" are strong originals. George Gershwin's "Summertime," unfortunately, gets an undistinguished, overly literal reading. On the quintet tracks the focus wavers. Jordan is too often relegated to conventional comping in the background. Blakey's playing occasionally becomes cluttered and Heath seems to lose interest. More problematic is the ineffective, bottom-heavy baritone sax/trombone combination. Payne's and Bert's parts generate little harmonic interest. The result is two horns doing no more than the work of one. As for the tunes, the pianist's "Flight to Jordan" and Payne's "Cu-ba" offer respectable solos, while "Scotch Blues" is an awkward attempt by Jordan to fuse a Scottish folk dance theme with straight-ahead blues. The blues passages are fine, but the scotch doesn't mix. There are some good moments on this CD, particularly from Jordan and Payne. Both the pianist and the baritone saxophonist, however, can be heard to better advantage on Payne's 1956 set, Patterns of Jazz, where Jordan, with Tommy Potter (bass) and Art Taylor (drums), shines in a consistently integrated and cohesive performance with Payne. ---Jim Todd, AllMusic Review

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