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Sounds like an excellent run 😇

in spite of this, it is an interesting and fascinating document.

hmmm... are we supposed to be so excited this exists to not mention a seeming excess of marginal euro (collector / crap) entries? and no Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams, no Illinois Jacquet, no Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson, Sam Rivers only as a Jeanne Lee sideman, no John Carter (check that I do see John with Tapscott) no Henry Threadgill, no Leroy Jenkins (or Revolutionary Ensemble: ironic because there's no greater "Revolutionary" in contemporary music or literature than Thurston Moore), no Billy Bang though it could be argued Billy's key dates fall on other side of 1980. maybe Rivers, Carter, Threadgill, Jenkins et al are too much composers to be "free"? credit whoever picked Kenton - Graettinger, however, that's shocking to see, almost as much as if someone picked Bix "In A Mist." and yeah yeah, everyone has their own list but when it's a bunch of old white guys who weren't there speaking of / for an American born culture i aver there's a greater responsibility to not play preening collector sword fight.  Love Jeanne Lee but she gets TWO entries and Betty Carter none? Again, one could argue her freest performances were later but she was always "out there." ** oooh, "free improv", oooh Borbetomagus! **  

I am maybe the last one who would buy an Oscar Peterson album or listen to him, but I think I heard that jam, it is very good horn players, and Eddie Lockjaw is outa sight. Diz is in top form as is Clark Terry. Only that it seems that Diz made some compromis to not scare Peterson cause Diz was much more ahead of the time than. He didn´t play the straight ahead bop clichés anymore, had a young modern quartet with Rodney Jones, Benjamin Franklin Brown and Mikey Roker.  The sound good but I don´t really like Nils Hennig, he has a  too even tone and his solos sound like exercises, and I like if you hear more plucking the strings and musical thrill from a bass player.  Nils he got a helluva chops, but somehow goes into a too plain manner like his longtime boss Peterson. Imagine those horn players with someone like Buster Williams and you´d hear the difference.  I heard that album but OWN only one Peterson album: Singers Unlimited, maybe because you don´t hear to much of Oscar Peterson 😀 Diz, Jaws, Clark all were hip guys with style, and musical taste and an attitude you have to listen to it and love to listen to it.