Despite working for Mingus and Max Roach among many others, Jordan never achieved the recognition he deserved for his tenor playing. But the premise for this absorbing box is his production work, with all seven sessions produced by him. As well as his own two albums for the ‘Dolphy Series’ (In The World and Glass Bead Games), there are relatively rare sessions by post-bop baritonist Cecil Payne, a very Ornette-ish Charles Brackeen (Rhythm X) and Pharoah Sanders (Izipho-Zam, from a month before Karma and with much in common). More striking still are an album each led by Ed Blackwell, issued for the first time, and by bassist Ware (a quartet featuring Cherry, Jordan and Blackwell, unreleased till 2012). The rest of the personnel involved very much sums up the give-and-take between a couple of generations of then-unfashionable musicians, in the no-holds-barred, no-traditionspurned late 1960s. Just look at the listing of those involved and think of their different affiliations, starting with Ornette of course, but with less Trane influence than you might expect. Well worth the reissuing and the resulting re-evaluation.