There’s a great show on my local independent radio station called “Stolen Moments” with a distinctive theme music, that you guys would all know well. I delved into the album a bit this afternoon and found myself following it to a greater extent than expected. I think I’ll give it a few more good listens:
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I much prefer this cover art for that album. This is what was on the copy I have had for most of my life 
This is one of the first Jazz albums that I listened to hundreds of times…starting around age 12 when I was first getting into Jazz. What a super-group at the time.
Oliver Nelson also wrote a tune called “Blues and the Abstract Truth”, too, but it is not on this album (it is on “More Blues and the Abstract Truth”. It’s a neat song.
His “Patterns For Jazz Improvisation” was a fixture in my life for quite a while too. I had a copy from the 70s, but it fell to pieces from overuse so I had to replace it with a modern printing:
Thing I always wondered is…the last page of that book is the melody from the tune “Blues and the Abstract Truth”. I always wondered which came first. Did he write the exercise then arrange the tune? Or extract the exercise from the tune?
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Brian-
Thanks for reminding me of that Oliver Nelson album, which I didn’t own and which I’d forgotten about.
Listened to it on Tidal and then went and bought a digital remaster from Acoustic Sounds (DSD).
I don’t even playback DSD on my system, but know from experience that basically everything that Acoustic Sounds remasters from tape for their own label sounds fantastic. The AS version sounds much better than the Tidal version.
BTW, Tidal has it with both covers (same content) and one version with bonus tracks.