Ira Sullivan's Strings Attached, from 1983 [FLAC limited time only]

 

Here's another wonderful and progressive album that is truly lost to time and memory.  

Ira Sullivan is a sax player who starting putting out records in the 1950s, generic jazz with standards, inevitably.  However in the very late year of 1983 he put out this very interesting album full of great compositions.  On this alt. page you can see details about the credits.  So most of the compositions are by David Einhorn (very little other material appears from him in the database) and the arranging of the strings was done by ? who? there is no name, might have been either Einhorn or Sullivan.

The amazing Late Nights (written by David and brother Peter Einhorn), I love that the acoustic guitar intro eschews all the usual jazz cliches and just comes up with original chord strummed figures:

On this album there is another Ballad which is just gorgeous, this time the (chamber) composition is by (reeds and woodwinds player) John Alexander:

Surprisingly the whole album is full of gems.  Not one bad track in my opinion. The CD actually found nonreleased bonus tracks to throw in there too, which are equally interesting.  What a gem...  Will wonders never cease?  Not on this blog!