For the first time, this CD offers the complete issued recordings of Johnny Sparrow, including his work for Melford (1949), National (1950) and Gotham (1952/53). In his 1955 book "The First Book of Jazz," poet Langston Hughes listed Johnny Sparrow"s sole hit "Sparrow"s Flight" as one of his favorite jazz tunes of all time, but here you can listen to the gamut of the forgotten saxman"s styles; from the lush ballads of "What"s New?" and "Yesterdays" and the jungle exotica of "Serenade to Satchmo," to the bebop of Indiana and rasping jump tunes such as "Boudoir Boogie" and "Jump Steady."