condition (record/cover): NM / NM (in shrink with sticker)

No insert.

He made the trombone a bebop instrument, which had been considered flatly impossible, and he did it by developing an articulation so clean that people accused him of playing valve trombone. J.J. Johnson's mid-fifties Blue Note sessions are where that achievement is best documented, and this first volume has an extraordinary supporting cast: Clifford Brown on trumpet, Jimmy Heath on reeds, John Lewis at the piano, Percy Heath and Kenny Clarke underneath. Speed, precision and total harmonic command, plus a compositional sense that made him one of the most respected writers of his generation.

Blue Note pressing. The instrument's entire modern vocabulary, laid out by the man who assembled it.