Elvin Jones/Jimmy Garrison Sextet - Half and Half

I was at that Session at VanGelder's with Reggie Golson,Elvin & his wife Shirley,Johnny DeFranco,Jimmy Garrison,Stephen Daniel James,Prince Lasha, and McCoy. This was a joint effort of Elvin and Jimmy as they shared the leadership on this and EJ wrote some of the music. There was a great Scottish type tune that I loved as they did about 5 or 6 takes on. After this session, Elvin,Steve,Reggie and I went to The Cottage Inn restaurant/dive across from the studio on rt 9W and had "dem greasy,dirty home fries" that the place was famous for. We always went there after Trane's sessions as well. Bob Thiel from ABC IMpulse was the producer of this session as he was for Coltranes sessions and he once told me that they took the opportunity to record Trane,Elvin,McCoy and Jimmy at all hours of the day or night as often as they could stretch the budget since ABC was one of those giant corporate things.George Benson had a home near VanGelder's in Englewood Cliffs and Marvin Smith and his brother Ear; "BUSTER" Smith lived down the hill. McCoy Tyner was living in Teaneck at the time where Thad Jones Family resided with Thad's son and my friend Bruce Jones. It was all happening in the Englewood/Teaneck NJ area."NUTTIN JONES" is a swinging tune. I always loved the way Elvin,McCoy and Jimmy grooved together. Shirley Jones, Elvin's wife, was a great person to hang around. Stephen Daniel James was Duke Ellington's neohew and Reggie Golson(RIP) was Benny Golson's son. I went to school and grew up with all these Cats!
LOVE ALWAYS and ALWAYS LOVE,
HABIB