David Murray

condition (record/cover): NM / NM

Obi included.

David Murray in song mode: Morning Song, from the DIW / Black Saint axis that documented his quartet work with such consistent devotion through the eighties. The title track shows the Murray paradox at its warmest - a melodist of enormous tenderness who can dissolve into free flight mid-phrase and return home like nothing happened, the gospel dawn and the fire living in one continuous breath, neither ever apologizing to the other. The eighties quartets, with pianists like John Hicks driving underneath, produced some of the most satisfying tenor-quartet music of the entire modern era: adventurous enough for the vanguard, songful enough for everyone with a pulse, swinging always. This is prime evidence, sequenced with care and played with the generosity that made Murray's quartet records the era's most reliable pleasure.

Japanese pressing, reliably clean, from the label that treated him as the master he was while American majors looked elsewhere. Their loss, permanently on record.