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Underrated pianist/composer Walter Davis Jr. was at his early peak when he recorded his one and only Blue Note recording with a hand-picked quintet playing all of his compositions. The great alto saxophonist Jackie McLean is on the front line with the lyrical Donald Byrd on trumpet, Sam Jones on bass and the always swinging and hard driving drummer Arthur Taylor. This is state-of-the-art Jazz in New York before Ornette Coleman, Coltrane, Cecil Taylor and others changed the scene around with some other sounds.