Avid's Classic Albums series has focused on several reed players whose work has come back into focus as a result, including Jimmy Forrest, Bobby Jaspar, Hal McKusick and Cecil Payne. This is an admirable addition to that collection, containing as it does one of the great albums, namely The Fox from August 1959 with Land and Dupree Bolton breathing and thinking as one, plus some of Elmo Hope's finest surviving work. What a thrill to hear Hope's ‘Mirror-Mind Rose’ again, or the headlong chase of the title-track. But the rest of the collection shows the absolute best of Land following his period with the Brown-Roach Quintet in the early 1950s. There's a flavour of that band and its voicings on ‘Speak Low’ from Harold In The Land of Jazz, with Rolf Ericson never copying, but providing a fine foil for Land's free-flowing tenor. It's good too to hear Wes Montgomery keeping level with Land's solo lines on ‘Klaktoveesedstene’ from West Coast Blues, or the rhythmic variety of the tracks on Eastward Ho with Kenny Dorham. There's not a dud or makeweight track here, and as a package to reawaken interest in this great tenor player, it could hardly be bettered.