The late saxophonist Marzette Watts was active in New York at the birth of the New Thing, taking a loft in the city in 1963 from where he dug into the free jazz scene, playing and hanging out with the likes of Henry Grimes and Don Cherry. But he was tragically under-recorded. His 1966 debut, released on ESP-Disk’ and featuring luminaries such as Sonny Sharrock and Clifford Thornton, has seen several CD releases but this, his second and final album, remains little known and out of print. Who knows why? It's a very deep date indeed. Watts' gutsy tenor bites hard on turbulent, pulse-time jams like ‘Play It Straight’ and the largish ensemble creates a wafting, Ligeti-esque tone poem on ‘October Song.’ Best of all, though, is a take on Ornette's ‘Lonely Woman’ with singer Patty Waters bringing her own lyrics to life with sighing melancholy. Seek it out.