• A vinyl record album cover for 'Super-Session' by Tommy Flanagan, featuring a portrait of Red Mitchell and Elvin Jones, with a yellow and blue Japanese obi strip on the left, photographed against a neutral gray background.

Tommy Flanagan, Red Mitchell, Elvin Jones

Super-Session

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SLEEVE
VG+
MEDIA
  • VG+
YEAr
  • 1980
COUNTRY
Japan
extras
  • Obi, Insert
IF YOU LIKE
  • Jazz
  • Bop
  • Hard Bop
  • Paul Chambers
  • Roy Haynes
  • Hank Jones
  • Kenny Barron

Recorded on February 4, 1980, at Sound Ideas in New York City and released on Enja Records, Super-Session brings together three jazz titans: pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Red Mitchell, and drummer Elvin Jones. Reconnecting after having played together in Detroit during the mid-1950s, the trio blends Flanagan’s graceful, shimmering bebop style with Mitchell's resonant bass work and Jones’s polyrhythmic, deeply conversational drumming. The set features a balanced mix of jazz standards—such as John Lewis's "Django" and Cole Porter's "I Love You"—alongside Flanagan's own sharp originals like "Minor Perhaps" and "Rachel's Rondo". The result is an effortless, telepathic masterclass in straight-ahead jazz where individual virtuosity serves a cohesive, swinging whole.