Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) TSOV-96 he holed up in the

he holed up in the basement of his West Seattle home and put the album together piece by piece over the past two years

recasting them in a mode often reminiscent of the pre-hip-hop work of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron

Like most of the albums that we reach for over and over again

moment to moment

Great Jazz Standards (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) TSOV-96 he holed up in theThe brilliant arranger Gil Evans had already collaborated with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Miles Ahead when he made his 2 excellent albums for World PacificNew Bottle Old Wine (1958) and Great Jazz Standards (1959)the latter featuring Johnny Coles, Steve Lacy, Budd Johnson, Elvin Jones & more. This stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original analog master tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at