Still sets a standard
Tenor players everywhere shake their heads in disbelief when they hear this, unless they'd been listening to all of the Roach-Clifford Brown dates. Beginning in the '70s Land starts to lose some of his edge, but he was a diminutive rather than a power player who played with surgical precision at any speed and with an expressive depth devoid of breathiness, vibrato, trickery. He can whirl your head off with his Clifford-like control and technique, than leave you daze with straight melodic readings of vibratos. His lines literally swell and "breathe." Hear him with Curtis Counce.
