This Is How I Feel About Jazz Breeders leaving Mike with the challenge

leaving Mike with the challenge of writing music that could live up to that moniker

while events were also staged on a series of islands

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The record starts with a murmur of percussion and a metallic grind

This Is How I Feel About Jazz Breeders leaving Mike with the challengeThis Is How I Feel About Jazz was Jones first full length album as a bandleader after a recording debut with the 1955 split album Jazz Abroad. Jones arranged and conducted three recording sessions during September 1956, each with a different line up, from a nonet to a fifteen piece big band. Musicians on the album include Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Jimmy Cleveland, Phil Woods, Lucky Thompson, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, Milt Jackson (referred to as