Riverside Records Story
You're in good hands with this retrospective, as Riverside co-founder and producer Orrin Keepnews himself programmed and annotated this four-CD set! Riverside only existed for nine years, but was THE hard bop label during its time; you'll also find more commercial fare like Mongo Santamaria's Watermelon Man among the set's 53 tracks. Also includes Brilliant Corners Thelonious Monk; Four on Six Wes Montgomery; The Freedom Suite Sonny Rollins; Things Are Getting Better Cannonball Adderley; Meditation (Meditacio) Charlie Byrd; Work Song Nat Adderley; Invitation Milt Jackson, and more from Randy Weston, Clark Terry, George Russell, Wynton Kelly, Coleman Hawkins, Abbey Lincoln and other greats.