The two 1961 New Jazz masterworks, with Mal Waldron, Ron Carter, Booker Ervin and co.

Real Eyes, Reflections, Moving Target.

The great 1960 recording, with big band and both Paul Bley and Bill Evans on pianos, twinned with an amateur recording of a complete concert by the Septet, later in the same year.

The 1962 Columbia set with Clark Terry, trumpet, Tommy Flanagan, piano, Major Holley, bass, and Dave Bailey, drums.

Jazz, soul and rhythm and blues by this pivotal figure, from the LPs Live At The Flamingo, and Sound Venture, with the cream of UK jazzmen. Swinging Soho does Stax, Latin, Stevie, Louis Jordan, Mose, Oscar Brown…

The MJQ pianist and Oxford Street department store in mostly trio settings, mostly standards, swinging and crisp.

Fabulous survey of Allen Toussaint’s Sansu label, from 1965 on, mixing one-aways with legends.

The Atlantic albums Worthwhile Konitz and Inside Hi Fi (with 1957’s The Real Lee Konitz, mostly a quartet date, thrown in).