This 4 CD collection features the best albums made by Gryce as leader or co-leader which includes his entire recorded output with Jazz lab between 1955 and 1960. Each of these eight records displays amply the great man''s huge musical, arranging and compositional abilities which in most cases leave his contemporaries short, and while Gryce has never been a household name, one listen to the music presented herein will leave most jazz fans wondering why.