Creating a most interesting groove which combines a good deal of avant garde experimentation with the jazz fundamentals of logic and swing (Melody Maker), the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet has gone down in British jazz history as a cult band, its few commercially-issued albums remaining among the most collectable of their kind. Mixing the gravitas of the veteran saxophonist Rendell with the ambitious and eclectic tastes of co-leader Carr the unit was a crucible of Brit-jazz development, swiftly moving from orthodox Hard Bop to a style unquestionably its own. These three previously unissued sessions (both studio-taped and live) capture the band in transition from its early incarnation with Colin Purbrook in the piano chair through to the wilder, free-flowing, moods that followed Michael Garrick s arrival in 1965. Long-term Rendell/Carr fans will welcome new versions of the quintet s classic tracks Dusk Fire, Jubal and Hot Rod, as well as several group-penned compositions heard here for the first time.

1. Blues For Sue
2. Regrets
3. Down On The Nile
4. Silver Serenade
5. Step Lightly
6. Blues For Three
7. Blues Row
8. Spooks
9. The Hot Rod
10. Jubal
11. Dusk Fire
12. Birdwalk
13. Webster's Mood
14. Tootin' and Flutin'
15. The Snows Of Yesterday
16. Torrent