Bob Magnusson Quartet, Bill Mays, Bob Shanks, Road Work Ahead (1981)

Here's a lovely little totally unknown release by a bunch of artists I never heard before. Leader Bob Magnusson from NYC plays bass in this group while his quartet adds Peter Sprague on guitar, Jim Plank on percussion, & Bill Mays on keyboards.  Like so many other jazz records a blurb appears on the back with elaborate and fawning descriptions of the music, amusing to read, since it hails from a bygone, pre-social-media era when you didn't have to be cynical, adolescent, and conspiracy-minded to stand up and speak to the world.  So for ex. the track called As Our Children Sleep sure enough was written by Bob for his kids and the title suggested by them (-and wouldn't it be interesting to see the kinds of comments this would pick up in a place like twitter or even youtube if I reprinted that description):

The track called Zephyr by Bill Mays demonstrates a lot of creative ideas:

I'll surely be back with more from these guys.  I threw in a lossless for once because it's so lovely to hear the near mint condition of the record and crystal clear sound-- for all those out there with big-ass speakers still sitting in their living rooms to be used here, I salute you.