Records

RecordsOnce in a blues moon a record comes along that demands to be called a classic. Such is Jam Session #8 (Clef 711), a disc that makes us wish we had recourse to an untapped larder of laudatory adjectives. For here assembled are 10 top Jazz-at-the-Phil stars, individualists all, making like a pack of blues-blooded hounds of jazz, baying at a hot full moon. Side B is a ballad medley with each of the soloists playing his favorite. It is – to use a strong word in all seriousness – superb. But i...