LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Another example of Prestige's policy of stretching out past the confines of the three-minute recording, instituted with Zoot Sims in August 1951. While this October session does not include any numbers that take up an entire LP side, no track is less than 5:23, the title track is 7:33, and the classic "Bluing" is five seconds short of ten minutes. It also spotlights three young musicians- Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop- who grew up playing in the same Harlem neighborhood band during the first flowering of bebop. Dig, It's Only a Paper Moon, Denial, Bluing, Out of the Blue, plus CD bonus tracks My Old Flame, Conceptionwith Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter, Art Blakey