You Leave Me Breathless
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{{Infobox album
| name = You Leave Me Breathless
| type = Album
| artist = Junior Cook Quintet
| cover = You Leave Me Breathless.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1992
| recorded = December 1991
| venue =
| studio = Klampenborg, Denmark
| genre = Jazz
| length = 66:11
| label = SteepleChase
SCCD 31304
| producer = Nils Winther
| chronology = Junior Cook
| prev_title = On a Misty Night
| prev_year = 1989
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
You Leave Me Breathless is the final album led by saxophonist Junior Cook which was recorded in 1991 and released on the SteepleChase label.[http://steeplechase.dk/wordpress/junior-cook-you-leave-me-breathless-sccd-31304/ SteepleChase Productions ApS] accessed April 18, 2017[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/CookJunior-ldr.php Junior Cook Leader Entry] accessed April 18, 2017[http://www.jazzdisco.org/junior-cook/catalog/#steeplechase-sccd-31304 Junior Cook catalog] accessed April 18, 2017[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Junior_Cook.htm Jazzlists: Junior Cook discography] accessed April 18, 2017
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=300}}
}}
The Allmusic review called it a "one of Junior Cook's finest sessions as a leader" stating "Tenor saxophonist Junior Cook's final recording, cut less than two months before his death, finds the veteran hard bop stylist in surprisingly prime form, taking upbeat solos and swinging hard".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000050689 |title=You Leave Me Breathless – Review |accessdate=April 18, 2017}}
Track listing
- "Junior's Cook" (Junior Cook) – 6:34
- "Envoy" (Valery Ponomarev) – 8:14
- "Warm Valley" (Duke Ellington) – 8:59
- "Sweet Lotus Lips" (Mickey Tucker) – 7:19
- "Vierd Blues" (Miles Davis) – 9:58
- "You Leave Me Breathless" (Frederick Hollander) – 12:07
- "Fiesta Español" (Cedar Walton) – 6:50
- "Mr. P.C." (John Coltrane) – 5:48
Personnel
- Junior Cook – tenor saxophone
- Valery Ponomarev – trumpet
- Mickey Tucker – piano
- John Webber – bass
- Joe Farnsworth – drums
References
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