Dexter Gordon considered this his finest album and few would disagree. With the perfect rhythm section of Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins, this tenor giant reinvents standards like "Three O'Clock In The Morning," "Second Balcony Jump" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" and introduces his most famous composition "Cheese Cake."

Brilliant Corners is a studio album by American jazz musician Thelonious Monk. It was his third album for Riverside Records and the first, for this label, to include his own compositions. The complex title track required over a dozen takes in the studio, and is considered one of his most difficult compositions

Drummer Art Blakey led many great editions of the Jazz Messengers from the inaugural mid-'50s sessions until his death in the '90s. While arguments rage regarding which was his best, there is no doubt that the 1960-1961 unit figures in the debate. This wonderful six-disc set, notated with care and painstaking detail by Bob Blumenthal, covers studio and live sessions from March 6, 1960, to May 27, 1961, with the same personnel on all but two songs. Producer Michael Cuscuna used only first issue dates, and while he included some alternate takes, he did not litter the discs with second-rate vault material. They smoothly detail the band's evolution, cohesion, and maturation. This set, as with all Mosaic boxes, goes beyond essential. Get it post haste.
Bass – Jymie Merritt (tracks: 1.1 to 5.1, 5.3 to 6.10)
Design – Richard Mantel
Drums – Art Blakey
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Liner Notes – Bob Blumenthal, Michael Cuscuna
Photography By – Francis Wolff
Piano – Bobby Timmons (tracks: 1.1 to 3.9, 4.2 to 6.10), Walter Davis, Jr.* (tracks: 3.10, 4.1)
Producer [Original Sessions] – Alfred Lion
Reissue Producer – Michael Cuscuna
Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter (tracks: 1.1 to 5.1, 5.3 to 6.10)
Trumpet – Lee Morgan (tracks: 1.1 to 5.1, 5.3 to 6.10)