This CD issue of vanguard trumpet legend with the in a Paris studio is one of those very special dates where everything seems to go right. is in excellent form here, whether he is playing as on which opens the set and is a fiery 13-minute excursion into the outer reaches of , or turning in a slightly bent but nonetheless streaming performance as he odes on the next track, The , an under-celebrated band that backed virtually every major American musician in Paris proves how well it adapts to 's muscular style by responding with more muscle. ' left-hand rhythm comping is tough and full of fire and edges. On pushes hard to the edges of a harmonic shelf that finally bleeds off into a blazing symmetry of angles that is propelled into an abyss by the ferocious bass playing of the under-heralded . Also noteworthy are 's compositions here that, like much music of their time, leave tradition to the dust. He engages it and the in a sort of modal inquiry, where he wraps extant ideas about form, tonal sonance, and intervallic architecture in a phraseology and compositional elegance that was beyond most of his peers. 's CD version sounds warm, lovely, and very much alive. Thank goodness this is available again. ~ Thom Jurek