Love his writing for Johnny Griffin's Riverside dates, especially THE LITTLE GIANT. And his arrangement of "Wade in the Water"... pretty epochal stuff. Need to catch up on his leader dates. The few I've heard did not disappoint.
Perhaps. I thought the Debussy model was more "relevant" to the trio with Ralph Pena and Jim Hall, but I could be misremembering. Need to dig out that TALKS AND PLAYS set on CELP...