This excellent compilation documents the musical collaboration between saxophonist
Harold Land and trumpeter
Carmell Jones. Though perhaps best known for his appearance on Horace Silver’s classic album, “Song for My Father”, Jones recorded a handful of fine dates with Land in the early 1960s: “The Remarkable Carmell Jones”, “Hear Ye”, “Jazz Impressions of Folk Music” and “Business Meetin’”. The first three albums are reproduced in their entirety here, as well as a few selections from the last. Among the sidemen are pianist Frank Strazzeri, and bassist Red Mitchell (who received co-billing with Land on “Hear Ye”). Land and Jones work beautifully together—a strong musical synergy between them. Their partnership may not have produced a whole lot of albums, but what it did produce was hard bop of the highest calibre.
