The Lenox School of Jazz was a summer program in Lenox, Massachusetts founded by John Lewis and held from 1957 to 1960. It was one of the first instances where the worlds greatest jazz musicians were enlisted as faculty and where jazz was taught to promising young musicians. This release presents the rare and long unavailable 1959 Lenox Annual Benefit Concert, featuring such stars as Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Jimmy Giuffre, Kenny Dorham and Gary McFarland, among many others.
As a bonus, an extremely rare quartet set by Kenny Dorham, who was one of the mentors at the Lenox School.