Dopo anni, un nuovo album del chitarrista acustico.

Il quinto album come solista per uno dei migliori songwriter dell'attuale generazione.

2 CD. Ottima antologia con brani tratti dal catalogo Blue Note. Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Clifford Brown, John Coltarne, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Clark, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Cannonball Adderley, Lee Morgan, Kenny Burrell, Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, Donald Byrd, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson e molti altri. Un disco perfetto per cominciare ad ascoltare il jazz.

Recorded at Wesleyan University, October 26, 2002.
Mixed and mastered December 28, 2002.
Compositions by Andrew Cyrille ( Major-A-Music, ASCAP ) and Anthony Braxton ( Synthesis Music, BMI ).
Produced by Intakt Records. Published and Copyright by Intakt Records ( except The Loop and Composition No. 310 ).

Includes 20 pages booklet.

Recorded on April 27, 1993.

Live concerts from the late fifties! No performance dates are given on release.
Joe Dodge and Norman Bates are erroneously credited for each other's actual roles.
Additionally, the track given as "Eleven Four" is actually "Three to Get Ready" from the 1959 album Time Out (along with the included "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo aka Turk"). The composition "Eleven Four" wasn't released until 1962 for the album Countdown-Time in Outer Space, well-past the late fifties.

Recorded 1957.

Printed in Japan.

Recorded at Giant Recording Studios, New York, NY June 29-30, 1995

Registrato dal vivo con Mitteleuropa Orchestra.