Cedar Walton Trio, Quartet & Quintet – Cedar! (1968) {1999 OJC} **[RE-UP]** Cedar! is a 1968 album by Cedar Walton in three configurations: as part of a trio, as part of a…
The New Gary Burton Quartet – Guided Tour (2013) On its sophomore offering for Mack Avenue Records, the New Gary Burton Quartet reveals the musical maturity that naturally occurs…
Andy Baker Orchestra, Avalon String Quartet – Leo Sowerby: The Paul Whiteman Commissions & Other Early Works (2021) Evoking the Roaring Twenties, Chicago composer Leo Sowerby’s engaging and ingenious Synconata (1924) and Symphony for Jazz Orchestra (“Monotony”) (1925),…
John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet and Horace Tapscott Quintet – West Coast Hot [Recorded 1969] (1991) This very valuable release documents two important but underrated avant-garde units that were based in Los Angeles. Clarinetist John Carter…