This CD features one of the least typical jazz ensembles in the Blue Note catalog and one of its most critically popular. Kenny Cox is a pianist from Detroit who built his chops on the local scene, backing up visiting touring artists and hitting the road for three years with Etta Jones. Blue Note A&R head and pianist Duke Pearson heard about Kenny and The Contemporary Jazz Quintet via a Detroit disc jockey. He flew there in late - 1968 and recorded their first session, tracks 1 - 6 on this newly-remastered CD. The last tracks on the CD appeared as the group's second LP, "Multidirection," recorded in Detroit in November of 1968.

Hard-bop pianist Kenny Cox released two solo albums in the late      ?
?1960s exhibiting his highly accessible style. His debut,             ?
?appropriately titled INTRODUCING KENNY COX, was originally released  ?
?in 1968, and was reissued in 2007. INTRODUCING rarely ranges left of ?
?center (although some of the solos reveal the influence of the freer ?
?trends of the time). Instead this is classic 1960s hard bop complete ?
?with swinging, uptempo pulses, athletic runs, and plenty of          ?
?technical prowess all around. This fine date will interest fans of   ?
?the style and the era."



01. Mystique
02. You
03. Trance Dance
04. Eclipse
05. Number Four
06. Diahnn
07. Spellbound
08. Snuck In
09. Sojourn
10. Multidirection
11. What Other One
12. Gravity Point