Illinois Jacquet - Live in Burghausen 1996In 1981 Tenor Sax legend Illinois Jacquet pursued his career long dream of assembling a truly great big jazz band in the tradition of his mentors, Count Basie and Lionel Hampton, bands with whom he recorded and toured in his youth. He would apply all the wisdom and experience he gleaned as their sideman, as well as from his years of leadership over his many small groups, and would include songs he made famous with his "little big band" of the 1940s.

These includes a stunning list of cutting-edge artist such as Henry Threadgill

a very original homage to early American jazz

and full of virtuoso performances

Stan your ground and enjoy this all-new collection of American Dad

With Embeth Davidtz

Many of the songs on this disc are still in weekly rotation at underground clubs across the globe

But just when Luffy kicks into gear

his work anticipating Stravinsky

confessional R&B-fuelled testaments

Rode's compositions are advanced and innovative

Meticulously painted landscapes unravel as they disappear into a wispy haze of white paint

6 explores a new-found narrative dimension