Guitarist Peter Leitch caught my ear in a guest spot on the Woody Shaw CD "Solid," Savoy, (a reissue worth getting) so I bought his 2004 Reservoir disk "Autobiography" recently, which is straight-ahead hard bop with accomplished playing by Leitch (I really like the run he lays down on Charlie Parker's "Segment"), surprisingly good Jed Levy on tenor sax (new to me and showcased on "Clifford Jordan" and "Allyson," both Leitch compositions) and reliably good George Cables on piano.
Nothing really shocking, except maybe playing Albert Ayler's "Ghosts," as a kind-of calypso no less, but good music. The Leitch and bassist Dwayne Burno dueting on ""Medley: Little Girl Blue/Girl Talk" is smashing.
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