Blue Note

Sweet Honey Bee

Duke Pearson

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Recorded	1967
Label	Blue Note
Catalog	BLP 4252
Released	1967
Personnel	11 credited players
Discogs	master 203633

The record

Three horns on a pianist's date, and the pianist wrote the book: Freddie Hubbard's trumpet, Joe Henderson's tenor, and James Spaulding doubling alto and flute, over Ron Carter and Mickey Roker. Duke Pearson's tunes -- Sweet Honey Bee, After The Rain, Empathy -- run lyrical rather than hard-charging, which gives a front line this hot something to shape. Blue Note BLP 4252, mono.

Tracks

Sweet Honey Bee
Sudel
After The Rain
Gaslight
Big Bertha
Empathy
Ready Rudy?

Session personnel

James Spaulding — Alto Saxophone, Flute
Ron Carter — Bass
Bob Fuentes — Design [Cover]
Mickey Roker — Drums
Rudy Van Gelder — Lacquer Cut By
Nat Hentoff — Liner Notes
Francis Wolff — Photography By [Cover Photo]
Duke Pearson — Piano, Written-By
Alfred Lion — Producer
Joe Henderson — Tenor Saxophone
Freddie Hubbard — Trumpet

Contemporary reception

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

Pressings

The earliest pressing on file here is a 1967 US Blue Note BST 84252 in stereo, with an RVG stamp and a laminated sleeve; a same-year repress carries identical markers, so the year alone will not separate them. We list no mono copy of this title at all. After that it is a 1971 US reissue, a 1983 Japanese K18P-9205, a 1993 UK and US pressing, and a 2011 BLP 4252.

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 22 pressings on file.

1967	Blue Note · BLP 4252 — Vinyl LP Album Mono earliest on file
1967	Blue Note · BST 84252 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
1967	Blue Note · BST 84252 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
1971	Blue Note · BST 84252, BLP 4252 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
1993	Blue Note · CDP 0777 7 89792 2 7 — CD, Album, Reissue · RVG stamp
1993	Blue Note · CDP 0777 7 89792 2 7 — CD, Album, Reissue · RVG stamp
1993	Blue Note · B1-89792 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
2004	Blue Note · 7243 5 90834 2 1 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
2004	Blue Note · 7243 5 95974 2 3 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Copy Controlled · RVG stamp
2004	Blue Note · 7243 5 90834 2 1 — CD, Album, Club Edition, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp
1983	Blue Note · K18P-9205 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1993	Blue Note · B1-89792 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1993	Blue Note · B1-89792 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1997	Blue Note · TOCJ-4252 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo