Goldenwings (Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series): Vinyl LP SOVRSAPRIL24SALE The brilliant arranger Gil Evans

The 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 Pacific—New Bottle Old Wine (1958) and Great Jazz Standards (1959)—the latter featuring Johnny Coles

and ‘Achtung’

and Art Taylor on drums delivering a swinging hard bop set that presented 2 originals by McLean (“Tippin’ the Scales” and “Rainy Blues”) along with 3 by Clark (“Nursery Blues

At just 22 years old

The spacious double album travels wide expanses of musical terrain from beautiful ballads to raw Delta blues and includes stunning homages to both Duke Ellington and Zakir Hussain

Goldenwings (Jazz Dispensary Top Shelf Series): Vinyl LP SOVRSAPRIL24SALE The brilliant arranger Gil EvansMasterminded by the prolific collaborators The Fattoruso Brothers, Airto Moreira, and Hermeto Pascoal, Opas Goldenwings a latin jazz fusion extravaganza that weaves a sonic world that lives at the intersection of lush three part vocal harmonies, tender flute solos, pulsating percussions, and robust synth textures. Reissued on vinyl for the first time in 50 years as part of Jazz Dispensarys Top Shelf series, the album was cut from the original analog