Clifford Jordan

Yeah.

And so fast forward, it's 1991 and I'm playing with the Clifford Jordan Big Band in New York.

Oh man.

Right.

I told him I wasn't ready.

Oh, really? Archie Shapp said that? Archie Shapp said that, and this was in 1991, so he wasn't no kid.

And I had discovered by playing with Clifford Jordan's big band that Archie Shep, like most of the cats, who played what we used to call the outside, them cats could all play the inside, because you don't know if you're really outside unless you've been

inside.

Or was it Strata East? I can't remember.

The version you probably know is Clifford Jordan, of course.

But that version I'm loving.

Only just heard it in the last couple of weeks.

I just saw something about this album today.

Clifford Jordan.

Yeah.

Paul Chambers.

And so I went to used record stores and tried to find this track that I had heard, which was Ugetsu.

And the first Cedar Walton record I bought was Volume 1 of Live at Boomer's with Clifford Jordan, Sam Jones, and Lewis Hayes.

And that album began with a beautiful melody by Cedar called Holy Land, which I'm sure you know.

It's become a jazz standard of sorts.