Recordings
July, 1958
Take seven men who have backgrounds in big-band swing, who have grown in stature and musicianship while they evolved with jazz itself, who now stand out as first-rank individual stylists. Get them together, have them play a set which has the best elements of jamming and of arrangement. If you're lucky, as well as real bright in having thought this up, you'll get an outstanding LP, one that rewards repeated listenings and makes some erstwhile favorites seem wan by contrast. You don't have to do i...
