Released after volume one was, as the saying goes, real real gone. Nonetheless a fingersnappin’ set of goatee growers, bent bop tunes, slang poetry & crazy cookin’ cats that’re really on the stick. They’re all here: Dexter Gordon’s rival Wardell Gray (who improvised the melody that later became Annie Ross’ ‘Twisted’), lip-flapper Babs Gonzales (who wrote the song ‘Oop Pop a Da’ for Dizzy Gillespie), Nat Cole’s slicker-n-shit guitarist Oscar Moore, psychiatry-lounge singer Katie Lee and Chicago-pianist-turned-sound-effects-freak Mel Henke.

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