Bobby Watson - Love Remains

2022 reissue

Love Remains has become part of the multimedia juke box of the Kansas City Jazz Museum, considered by the Penguin guide among the best one hundred records in the history of jazz.

Altoist Bobby Watson has always been a consistent improviser whose roots are in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers but who is open to freer innovations. For this Red album, Watson is joined by pianist John Hicks, bassist Curtis Lundy and drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith for five of his originals, one by his wife Pamela Watson and Curtis Lundy's "Sho Thang." With such titles as "The Mistery of Ebop," "Blues for Alto" and the title cut, the high-quality music is essentially advanced hard bop and gives Watson a good opportunity to stretch out on some challenging structures.

Scott Yanow ~ AllMusicGuide