The Masters don't get much more masterful than this. Not only is this Oliver Nelson's greatest composition and defining work, he managed to get one of Freddie Hubbard's best solos ever, and Eric Dolphy, the Dolph, never disappoints. Hubbard sings the blues on trumpet and the Dolph delivers the abstract truth on flute. Oliver and company tie it all together with some tasty ensemble work. A "sixteen-bar piece in an eight-six-two pattern, even though the solos are in a conventional 12-bar minor-key blues structure in C minor," according to Nelson's liner notes.
I think I first purchased this album sometime around 1974, and it may well be the first jazz record that I fell in love with.
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