David Murray

The third box of David Murray on Black Saint gathers six albums recorded between 1978 and 1987, and it ranges widely: a quartet with a singer, two nights of his big band, a quintet with guitar, a clarinet quartet and a duo with a pianist. The tenor saxophonist and bass clarinettist leads four of them; on the other two he shares the billing, with the members of the Clarinet Summit and with Randy Weston.

Interboogieology was taped at Ricordi Studios in Milan in February 1978 and produced by Giacomo Pellicciotti. It has Johnny Dyani on bass, Butch Morris on cornet, Oliver Johnson on drums and Marta Contreras singing on two tracks. Morris's Namthini's Shadow and Blues For David stand next to an eleven-minute duet version of Murray's Home. The two volumes Live At Sweet Basil come from August 24 to 26, 1984 in New York: Morris conducts a big band with Olu Dara, Baikida Carroll, Craig Harris, Steve Coleman, Bob Stewart on tuba, Fred Hopkins on bass and Billy Higgins on drums. They came out in 1985 and 1986, the second ending with Four Minute Marvin (For Marvin Gaye). Children, recorded at Vanguard Studios in New York in October and November 1984, is a quintet with Don Pullen, guitarist James Blood Ulmer, Lonnie Plaxico and Marvin "Smitty" Smith. It includes a fifteen-minute All The Things You Are. Southern Bells was recorded in Atlanta on March 29, 1987, Murray on bass clarinet beside the B-flat clarinets of Alvin Batiste, John Carter and Jimmy Hamilton, from Batiste's Fluffy's Blues to Carter's title piece and Perdido. The Healers, a duo taped at Seltzer Sound in New York on September 26, 1987, sets Weston's The Healers and Blue Moses next to Murray's Mbizo, a piece that also closes Southern Bells.

The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note Volume 3, CAM Jazz box BXS 1042 from 2016: six CDs in card sleeves reproducing the original artwork, remastered from the original master tapes, reissuing albums first released between 1978 and 1987.