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Poetry-inspired music from New York flautist has a sometimes funky, sometimes swinging, sometimes elegiac tilt
The tutti-frutti loving drummer provided undemonstrative propulsion for Coltrane, Lateef and the MJQ and brushed out the beat for Nina Simone
The Connecticut-born jazz fan was the saviour of a wealth of forgotten, unreleased recordings and a champion of audiophile reissues
The Messengers' 1962 Riverside album signalled a stylistic departure from its Blue Note work, offering more variety and more relaxation
Florida-raised saxophonist with trumpet, piano, bass and drums pays tribute to Johnny Hodges, occasionally hinting at more modern vocabulary
Three post-beboppers incorporate something of Ornette Coleman's 'new thing' in a 1961 set including George Duvivier and Charles Persip
Vinyl reissue adds bonus tracks to the singer's mid-late 50s album with John Malachi, Jimmy Jones, Richard Davis, Joe Benjamin and Roy Haynes
Another reissue - on vinyl - for the renowned 1957 session featuring the principals with Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Buddy Rich
Some trumpet gems and uncomfortable vocals emerge from a lo-fi 1985 festival recording with Philip Catherine and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse
The audio of a 1976 TV programme featuring the Heath brothers plus Stanley Cowell on piano is remastered and issued for the first time
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