When Lenny McBrowne and the 4 Souls began gigging in Sacramento and San Francisco clubs they were critically hailed as representing the future of West Coast jazz.
• In these sessions for Pacific Jazz and Riverside, he showed he had become one of the top drummers on the jazz scene, and his young musicians—average age 25—swing hard as a unit. They also gave singer Gloria Smyth strong support in the session she recorded with them, lending distinctive backing to launch the career of this fine young talent
DONALD SLEET (tp), DANIEL JACKSON (as) TERRY TROTTER (p), HERBIE LEWIS (d)
RECORDED AT REX PRODUCTIONS STUDIO LOS ANGELES, JANUARY 2, 1960
1. SOUL SISTERS
2. INVITATION
3. DEARLY BELOVED
SIDE B
1. LAZINKAS TUNE
2. CERISE
3. I MARRIED AN ANGEL
4. McBROWNES GALAXY