Moodsville 9 LP

Moodsville 9 catches the Tommy Flanagan Trio, pianist Flanagan with bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Roy Haynes, in a 1960 session for Prestige's mood-music imprint, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder on his usual spare two-microphone setup. The trio sticks to slow, restrained standards like "You Go to My Head" and "In a Sentimental Mood," with Flanagan's "Jes' Fine" the only original in the set and "Come Sunday" handled as a solo piano turn. Craft Recordings has brought it back into print under its ongoing Moodsville reissue series.