The sole album by this forgotten US band was released in 1974 on small Mach Records and is probably the best example of early 70’s British progressive music (of The Moody Blues, Procol Harum or King Crimson) combined with heavy rock sounds (of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep). Most of the album was filled with varied and cleverly-arranged songs definitely influenced by the great names mentioned above, but it must be stressed that Leviathan had its own sound as well characterized by combination of Mellotron and Hammond organ sounds, electric guitar riffs and fine Zeppelin-ish vocals. The band was definitely a true representation of classic rock music! This remastered CD edition was expanded by 2 tracks from very rare vinyl single.

Greg Osby's outings for Blue Note are always challenging, always extending one boundary or another in his own idiosyncratic jazz iconography that uses elements of the historical tradition, the mainstream, and the avant-garde> in forging that signature. Public was recorded in January, 2004 at New York's Jazz Standard. Osby was playing in support of 2003's excellent St. Louis Shoes album. That band - trumpeter Osby on alto, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, bassist Robert Hurst, and drummer Rodney Green - all make this gig. The only change is the replacement of pianist Harold O'Neil with Japanese prodigy Megumi Yonezawa. The material features live renditions of three tunes from St. Louis Shoes; there are the reinventions of the two bebop classics, "Bernie's Tune" and "Shaw Nuff," each with staggered, jagged harmonic frameworks that are alternately jaggedly and pristinely wrought…