The Oliver Nelson standard Stolen Moments is from the 1961 Impulse album “The Blues And The Abstract Truth” …  a classic album that fully captures the feeling of that very prolific jazz era.  It features Oliver Nelson on tenor sax, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Eric Dolphy playing flute, George Barrow on baritone sax, Bill Evans at the piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Roy Haynes playing drums.  Kind of a ‘who’s who’ of the time.

The Miles Davis tune Milestones was recorded by Oliver Nelson with The Berlin Dream Band in 1970.  The band was comprised of several of the top jazz musicians from West Berlin’s underground music scene and, as this wild, up-tempo arrangement proves, European musicians can positively hold their own with their American counterparts!