A1 	My Secret Love 	8:52
A2 	When Sunny Gets Blue 	4:23
A3 	Nicky's Tune #3 	8:09
B1 	Nicky's Tune #2 	8:41
B2 	Wilbur's Tune 	8:09

Double Bass – Victor Sproles
Drums – Wilbur Campbell
Piano – Jodie Christian
Tenor Saxophone – Nicky Hill
Trumpet – Ira Sullivan

The talented Ira Sullivan has led relatively few sessions throughout his career considering his skills. This CD brings back his second full album as a leader, adding the previously unissued "Mock and Roll Blues" (a stomping tune) to the original five song program. Sullivan, who sticks here exclusively to trumpet, is joined by the obscure tenor Nicky Hill, pianist Jodie Christian, bassist Victor Sproles and drummer Wilbur Campbell. The music (two standards and four originals) is essentially straightahead bop and generally swings quite hard. ---Scott Yanow, AllMusic Review

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1. It Was A Very Good Year (E. Drake) (6:21)
2. Dear Old Stockholm (Ack Värmeland, Du Sköna) (traditional) (7:48)
3. Monday's Dance (I. Sullivan) (5:50)
4. Con Alma (D. Gillespie) (7:47)
5. Slightly Arched-Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most (T. Wolf - F. Landesman) (13:24)
6. Day By Day (S. Schwartz) (8:07)
7. Ira's Blues (I. Sullivan) (6:55)
8. Key Largo (B. Carter - K. Suessdorf - L. Worth) (7:22)

Ira Sullivan (tenor saxophone; soprano saxophone)
Bill Carrothers (piano 1-4, 7, 8), Bobby Peterson (piano 5, 6)
Billy Peterson (bass)
Kenny Horst (drums)

As in other CDs in the After Hours series of GoJazz, Ira Sullivan's collects a number of late-night recordings from several sessions. Sticking primarily to soprano sax for the most part, Sullivan is joined by bassist Billy Peterson, drummer Kenny Horst, and pianist Bill Carrothers (except for two tracks with Bobby Peterson on piano). His adventurous up-tempo arrangement of the often tepid mid-1960s ballad "It Was a Very Good Year" is immediately followed by a sauntering, somewhat exotic take of "Dear Old Stockholm." His powerful interpretation of Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma" conveys the sadness of losing someone special. His rich tenor sax finally makes an appearance with a brisk and joyful version of the usually bittersweet "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most." Sullivan also wrote two of the numbers on this release; "Ira's Blues" can't help but conjure up the memory of John Coltrane's intense blues on soprano sax, while "Monday Blues" begins with a lyrical unaccompanied solo by the leader then transforms into a driving post-bop number. Highly recommended. ---Ken Dryden, Rovi

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