Paul Jeffrey Quintet Electrifying Sounds Of The Paul Jeffrey Quintet

Paul Who ?? Even to those deep within the jazz cognoscenti the name Paul Jeffreys is unlikely to ring any significant bells. Beside being a featured sideman with two of the music’s most demanding bandleaders - THELONIOUS MONK and CHARLES MINGUS and holding down several notable academic posts ,the last of which North Carolina’s Duke University helped two generations of aspiring jazz performers gain valuable practical insights into the art form - - including Grammy winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Paul Jeffrey spent the majority of his lengthy career with a label that can be as much a curse as an endorsement - that of “MUSICIANS’ MUSICIAN.”
Paul worked with a wide range of artists, Maynard Ferguson,Howard Mcghee, Big Maybelle, BB King , Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie.The album’s title “The Electrifying Sounds of The Paul Jeffrey Quintet” gives it away in that it wasn’t just an attempt to create genuine excitement but the fact that for much of the record Jeffrey’s tenor is coonected to a Gibson Maestro Octave Box which enabled him to add either a higher or lower parallel music line to whatever he played.
This album was a most definite ground-breaker.