VA - The Roots of Modern Jazz: 1948 Sensation Sessions (1994)

Detroit's Sensation Records is probably best known to blues fans for the brilliant late 1940s recordings made for the label by John Lee Hooker. However, in three months in mid-1948, Sensation recorded five sessions that go right to the roots of the then emerging modern jazz. The session leaders were Milt Jackson, Sir Charles Thompson, Russell Jacquet and Sonny Stitt, but, among the supporting players, was a cast of great, and future great, names of modern jazz including J J Johnson, Max Roach, Leo Parker, Kenny Clarke, John Lewis and Ray Brown.