Horace Parlan Trio – No Blues (SteepleChase/Inner City, 1976)

Horace Parlan (p); Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (b); Tony Inzalaco (d)

Recorded on December 10, 1975

Hooray for Horace!  ... It was difficult for me to choose between this disc and Frank-ly Speaking (SteepleChase, 1977), another Parlan LP that features saxophonists Frank Foster and Frank Strozier.  

In the end, I chose the trio set because Parlan's wonderful and distinctive piano playing is more prominently featured.