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Sax No End

Clarke-Boland Big Band

Recorded	Jun 18, 1967
Label	MPS Records
Catalog	PRST 7634
Released	1967
Personnel	17 credited players
Discogs	master 179300

The record

Four tenors and a baritone stack up behind Clarke's cymbal work, Griffin and Drewo trading choruses while Shihab anchors the bottom. MPS caught this saxophone-heavy edition of the Clarke-Boland band at its most muscular.

Session personnel

Derek Humble — alto saxophone
Sahib Shihab — baritone saxophone
Fats Sadi — bongos
Jimmy Woode — double bass
Kenny Clarke — drums
Francy Boland — piano
Johnny Griffin — tenor saxophone
Karl Drewo — tenor saxophone
Ronnie Scott — tenor saxophone
Erik Van Lier — trombone
Nat Peck — trombone
Åke Persson — trombone
Benny Bailey — trumpet
Idrees Sulieman — trumpet
Jimmy Deuchar — trumpet
Shake Keane — trumpet
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis — tenor saxophone [solo]

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 16 pressings on file.

1967	SABA · SB 15 138 ST — Vinyl, LP, Album earliest on file · gatefold
1967	SABA · 15 138 ST — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo, Gatefold sleeve · laminated sleeve; gatefold
1967	SABA · SB 15 138 ST — Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Sleeve · gatefold
1971	MPS Records — STEREO
1971	MPS Records · CRM 644 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Gatefold · gatefold
1971	MPS Records · YS-2414-MP — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold · gatefold
1975	MPS Records · ULX-39-P — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1978	MPS Records · 5C 064-61223 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1979	MPS Records · 10 C 064-061.223 — Vinyl, LP
1980	MPS Records · JS-005 — Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Reissue
1980	MPS Records · CJ 9005 — Cassette, Album
1981	Pausa Records · 7097 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1981	Pausa Records · PR 7097 — Vinyl, LP
2005	MPS Records · UCCM-9204 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered