Shades Of Blue by Don Rendell Ian Carr Quintet, released on Columbia as part of their Landsdowne series in 1965.
Gerald Lascelles wrote in a contemporary review in Jazz Journal:
The quintet stimulates a remarkably fresh feeling, and reveals little in the way of adherence to any particular jazz form. The leader’s constant shifts from tenor to soprano keep the front line alive and variable in tone contrast, and there is a constancy in the rhythmic response which is quite rare and always animated.
Ian Carr, who has been working with Don since the beginning of 1963, provides some splendid moments in solo work, ...Garrison ’64 is quite an ambitious approach to the new patterns set by Coltrane, Davis, and the other leaders of style today. It would be wrong to describe it as free form, but it conveys the same loose feeling.
https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/08/14/jj-08-65-don-rendell-ian-carr-shades-of-blue/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxCVrN8X9E&list=OLAK5uy_lfb6d-fprKIVSVIRJ16NAYeQHlzGj75Es
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