Lew Soloff deserves more words or even pages in the history of the jazz trumpet greats. Lew is known his youthful association with BST , for his lead work for Gil Jaco Mingus and many others, and countless high-profile studio sessions, but taking a more expansive view Lew was an extraordinary versatile improviser, who covered the gamut of genres from blues to swing to bop to modal to free/atonal to New Orleans brass band to modern styles , and had no problem crossing over into rock funk pop. Lew always played with a ferocity and individualism that I'll never forget. Lew Soloff might have been the last of the great trumpets out of the 60s.