Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Acoustic Sounds) Girl Ray and Scott Solter (keyboards) —

and Scott Solter (keyboards) — emerged as the most coherent and richly rewarding album in the Mountain Goats' wildly extensive discography

“Shooter” was an attempt to reframe a familiar style and test the limits of its formal capabilities

to live instrumentation with deep layering

as well as some of the UK’s most exciting jazz-influenced musicians

produce and persist

Clifford Brown & Max Roach (Acoustic Sounds) Girl Ray and Scott Solter (keyboards) —Recorded in late 1954 and early 1955, this set marks the pinnacle of what some called the most definitive bop group of the era until Clifford Browns fatal car accident in 1956. The second of four albums Brown and Max Roach made together, Clifford Brown & Max Roach enlisted the duties of Harold Land (tenor saxophone) with Richie Powell (piano) and George Morrow (bass) solidifying the rhythm section around Roach. Browns compositions The Blues Walk, Joy