The bulk of Shaw's great sessions were recorded for independent labels (Muse & Contemporary,) ensuring them widespread critical evaluation but little audience except with the hardcore faithful. Things seemed about to change in the late '70s when Miles Davis suggested to Columbia that they record Shaw's group. They actually took his suggestion and signed Shaw. He issued a string of remarkable but low-selling records, and Columbia cut him loose after four years and four albums. They compounded the crime by deleting the records shortly after Shaw departed. Mosaic has corrected that slight with another of their marvelously produced and comprehensively notated and packaged box sets. This three-disc collection covers Shaw's Columbia sessions. While it is sad that Shaw's stay at Columbia was not more personally beneficial, it was quite musically productive.

Track List:

CD1
01. The Legend of the Cheops
02. Rosewood
03. Everytime I See You
04. Sunshowers
05. Rahsaan's Run
06. Theme for Maxine
07. Woody I
08. Woody II
09. Woody III
CD2
01. To Kill a Brick
02. Organ Grinder
03. We'll Be Together Again
04. Time Is Right
05. Why?
06. Joshua C.
07. Teotihuacan
08. Isabel, the Liberator
09. Ginseng People
10. Opec
CD3
01. United
02. Pressing the Issue
03. Katrina Ballerina
04. The Greene Street Caper
05. What Is This Thing Called Love?
06. Blues for Wood

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