Released in 1989 on Blue Note Records, Things Ain't What They Used To Be is a commanding collection of solo piano performances and intimate duets by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Recorded during the same 1989 sessions that produced Revelations, the album captures Tyner's signature thunderous block chords, virtuosic modal pentatonics, and deep blues feeling across 13 tracks. While a majority of the cuts feature Tyner performing solo interpretations of timeless jazz standards and originals—including John Coltrane's "Naima," Thelonious Monk's "I Mean You," and his own classic "Blues On The Corner"—the session is heightened by brilliant guest duet appearances. Tenor saxophonist George Adams joins for soulful renditions of the title track and "My One And Only Love," while guitarist John Scofield contributes intricate string dialogue on "I Mean You" and "Song For My Lady." A vital showcase of Tyner's unmatched pianistic authority.

Recorded in Monster, the Netherlands in June 1982 for Timeless Records, Melodic Excursions strips away the rhythm section to feature long-time collaborators George Adams and Don Pullen in an intimate tenor saxophone and piano duo setting. Having established their fierce chemistry together in Charles Mingus's mid-70s groups and their own famed quartet with Dannie Richmond and Cameron Brown, this rare duo album highlights their incredible balance between soulful warmth and blues-rooted avant-garde explosive power. From the tender gospel spirituality of God Has Smiled On Me to the blistering, percussive cluster runs of Playground Uptown And Downtown and Decisions, Adams and Pullen deliver a masterclass in post-bop dialogics.

Nightingale is a deeply soulful and expressive 1988 quartet date led by tenor saxophonist George Adams, recorded in New York City for the Japanese label Somethin' Else (Toshiba-EMI). Best known for his explosive, avant-garde blues power with Charles Mingus and the George Adams-Don Pullen Quartet, Adams channels his massive, gritty tone and emotional depth into a heartwarming program of beloved American standards, pop classics, and traditional spirituals. Supported by pianist Hugh Lawson, bassist Sirone, and drummer Victor Lewis, Adams offers breathtaking vocal-like interpretations of Paul Simon's Bridge over Troubled Water, Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World, Antonín Dvořák's Going Home, and the soaring 10-minute title piece A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square on flute.

Hand to Hand is an exhilarating 1980 post-bop and free-jazz quartet/quintet session led by tenor saxophonist George Adams and drummer Dannie Richmond, recorded in Milan for the Italian label Soul Note. Steeped in the blues-rooted yet fiery avant-garde tradition established during their years with Charles Mingus, Adams and Richmond assemble a stellar group featuring trombonist Jimmy Knepper, pianist Hugh Lawson, and bassist Mike Richmond. Balancing hard-swinging bop sensibilities with fiery, explosive solos and soulful melodies, the album features extended, expansive workouts including Lawson's driving openers The Cloocker and Joobubie, Adams' impassioned Yamani's Passion, and Richmond's tender, dedicated ballad For Dee J.

In Touch is a spectacularly expressive, historically monumental, and masterfully synchronized free jazz and avant-garde studio masterpiece led by the legendary supergroup collective Phalanx, digitally preserved and released on compact disc in 1988 under the prestigious independent Japanese avant-garde preservation imprint DIW Records. Spanning over 53 minutes of breathtakingly intense, conceptually unbound instrumental interactions across 6 sprawling, epic-length tracking alignments, this high-fidelity document serves as an absolute pinnacle monument in late-1980s free-funk and loft-jazz archaeology. Emerging as an ultimate powerhouse alliance of visionary masters, Phalanx executes a fierce, forward-thinking sonic blueprint that daringly bridges the jagged, microtonal harmolodic string structures of the loft scene with the soaring, full-throated blues expressiveness of post-bop and free music history.

Released in 1986 on the independent German label Moers Music, Got Something Good For You stands as a fiery, explosive documents of the short-lived avant-garde supergroup Phalanx. The heavyweight quartet brings together guitar pioneer James "Blood" Ulmer, powerful tenor saxophonist George Adams, lightning-fast electric bassist Amin Ali, and powerhouse drummer Calvin Weston. Operating at the thrilling intersection of harmolodic theory, raw blues expression, and heavy danceable grooves, the ensemble delivers a blistering performance that challenges the boundaries of traditional acoustic jazz. The eight-track program is relentlessly intense, offering sharp angular intersections between Ulmer's jagged, splintered guitar lines and Adams' deeply soulful, screaming saxophone flights, all anchored perfectly by the driving, propulsive harmolodic funk rhythm section of Ali and Weston. Tracks like Upside Down, Funky Lover, and the expansive closer Free crackle with spontaneous energy and raw urban friction, cementing this rare studio collaboration as an essential, high-octane masterpiece of the mid-1980s downtown free funk movement.