"I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space" – William Shakespeare, in Hamlet

Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years

Clifford Brown – trompete
Max Roach – bateria
Sarah Vaughan, Helen Merill, Abbey Lincoln – vozes
Harold Land, Sonny Rollins, Paul Quinichette, Hank Mobley, George Coleman, Stanley Turrentine – sax tenor
Jimmy Jones, Bill Wallace, Richie Powell – piano
Danny Bank – sax barítono
Kenny Dorham, Booker Little, Tommy Turrentine – trompete
Julian Priester – trombone
Ray Draper – tuba
Herbie Mann – flauta
Barry Galbraith – guitarra
George Morrow, Joe Benjamin, Milt Hinton, Nelson Boyd, Art Davis, Bob Boswell – baixo
Roy Haynes e Osie Johnson – bateria
The Boston Percussion Ensemble

Gravado entre 1954 and 1960, o primeiro cd contém um mix de originais de Clifford Brown, com standards eternos como “September Song”; o segundo disco resume um showcase de Max Roach.

Dos samples, que se podem ouvir aqui, destaques para “What’s New”, “What Am I Here For?”, “Jordu”, “Star Dust” e o vibrante “Blues Walk”.