The vibes maestro leading a sextet including Sunny Murray and Byard Lancaster.
The jazz-dancer The Known Unknown was the boom tune back in the day, but this is excellent throughout, as unjustly neglected as the SteepleChase albums which came next.

From the 1965 LP Happy Girl, with the knockout lineup of Woody Shaw, Larry Young, Jimmy Woode and Billy Brooks. A fierce modal original by Shaw, Theme From Zoltan was revisited by Young the following year on his classic Blue Note album Unity. Davis’ own composition Mister E features blistering solos by himself, Shaw and Young.

A song-based ritual dedicated to the memory of Sofía Miranda de Bellido, performed one year after her death, in the Ayacucho region of the Central-South Sierra of Peru.
Bells are rung all morning. The coffin is presented at noon. Mass starts at midnight; at four the next morning, harp and violin players pick up the pace.
“I have not died, I will die on the day that you forget me!”

Previously unreleased recordings made in the Chelsea Hotel in 1960 on 1/4” tape, transferred here for the first time; the basis of Confessions Of An Irish Rebel, published posthumously five years later.