J.R. Monterose - Color Wheel

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Available for the first time ever is this newly discovered lost master from the legendary J.R. Monterose, recorded the same year as In Action. These 9 tracks have never been heard and never been released! Available exclusively on this website!

While Monterose seems to have unsentimentally regarded himself as the quintessential underground artist, his work, both as player and composer, was, and remains, highly esteemed among musicians, critics and aficionados of classic jazz. He never denied having been influenced in turn by Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, but steadfastly refused to let himself be pigeonholed as a practitioner of any particular style. “I’ve tried all my life to avoid copying. If I can’t be myself, there’s no point being in jazz.” It was precisely this uncompromising insistence on going his own way, both musically and geographically, that has moved jazz historian and writer David Brent Johnson to describe Monterose as “The Best Tenor You Never Heard.”