Manhattan Focus

Manhattan Focus is the first and only one album of the group, featuring Al Foster (drums) Yoshiaki Masuo (electric guitar, acoustic guitar) Bob Berg (tenor sax) Kunihiko Sugano(acoustic piano, electric piano) Tom Harrell (flugelhorn) Yoshio Suzuki (acoustic bass) T.M. Stevens (electric bass) Sammy Figueroa (percussion) Eddie Colon (percussion).

Blossom Dearie - The Complete Recordings 1952-1962 (2014) {4CD Set Enlightenment-Verve EN4CD9028}
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© 1952-62, 2014 Enlightenment / Verve / Emarcy / Prestige | EN4CD9028
Jazz / Bop / Standards / Vocal Jazz

An idiosyncratic, girlish voice, snappy, flawless deliverance, and an irrepressible sense of light-hearted swing made Blossom Dearie one of the most pleasant singers of the vocal era. Her tenderness and glisten ensured that she'd never treat standards as the well-worn songs they often appeared in less competent hands. And though her reputation was made on record with a string of excellent albums for Verve during the '50s, she remained a draw with Manhattan cabaret audiences long into the new millennium.

Ornette Coleman - Beauty Is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1993) {6CD Box Set Rhino R2 71410 rec 1959-1961}
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© 1959-61, 1993 Atlantic / Rhino | R2 71410
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Free Jazz / Saxophone

While it's true this set has been given the highest rating AMG awards, it comes with a qualifier: the rating is for the music and the package, not necessarily the presentation. Presentation is a compiler's nightmare in the case of artists like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, who recorded often and at different times and had most of their recordings issued from the wealth of material available at the time a record was needed rather than culling an album from a particular session.