Esa Pethman's The Modern Sound, from 1965 and RIP Chick Corea: June 12, 1941 to Feb. 9, 2021

Just a beautiful album with one foot in the big, still huge jazz world of the early part of the sixties but another considerable step in the soon to come fusionary vision of truly and seamlessly combining the three worlds of European classical and rock with the former element. You can still see the seams, but the compositions are just magnificent, in my opinion.  The artist was featured before, here, in a much later work coming almost two decades later, that had more easy smooth listening influences but was nonetheless well written.

I guess you could say this is very similar to the famed Modern Jazz Quartet (who I hated, even when I was a jazz fan in college), but far far better.

Shepherd Song:

There are so many great ideas in here, full of creative energy and that thirst to break boundaries that seems like the personality of a young man (I see he was 27 at the time).  It's a bit shocking that at least under his own name, there is so little documented in the database.