Clifford Jordan - Complete Album Collection 1957-1962One of the most distinctive saxophonists to emerge during the late 1950's, while Clifford Jordan did not achieve the mass adulation enjoyed by Gerry Mulligan or Roland Kirk, his work remains just as influential, esteemed and unique. Indeed, whereas many of his contemporaries favoured rough attacks and a hard boiled fervour, Jordan instead perfected a light, floating approach. A typical Cliff Jordan solo used juxtaposition: a low note might break up a

With 14 previously unreleased tracks

The blues vocalist/songwriter/bandleader/harmonica player is now in his 73rd year and is not slowing down one bit

The album ends with Edge of a Razor

developing a raunchy night-club act on the east coast and finding fame when Dinah Washington invited him to perform in Las Vegas

for instance in Fanfare: 'The Russian duo has discovered - and created - new freshness in the sound of Stravinsky's music for the instrument

loungy and dreamy moods throughout the entire album

Completing the album is Schubert's much more intense (with a turbulent first movement and serene second) Symphony No

subsequent records as Toro y Moi have repeatedly shifted the idea of what his sound can be

selected symphonic works

Esses and Terte Rouge where a momentary slip of concentration is enough to end hopes: all of the drama that makes Le Mans irresistible is here

French horns and trumpets soar like eagles

a 76-page hardcover book by Michael Corcoran accompanied by a CD of recordings made by Phillips between 1927 and 1929