Claude Williamson Trio – La Fiesta (Interplay/Discovery, 1979)

Claude Williamson (p); Sam Jones (b); Roy Haynes (d)

Recorded on August 6, 1979

Issued in Japan as First Trip (Trio Records)

In the late-1970s, Claude Williamson made three of the finest LPs of his long career for Toshiya Taenaka's California-based Interplay label.  The first was a solo piano recording, Holography (1977).  The other two were trio discs with the incredible rhythm team of Sam Jones and Roy Haynes: New Departure (1978) and La Fiesta (1979).  

None of these Interplay LPs are currently available, although they have been intermittently reissued on CD in Japan.  The music is of such high quality that they're well worth the search.  I'd recommend starting with La Fiesta.  

Incidentally, Albert Marx reissued La Fiesta on his Discovery Records label in 1982.  This version may be the easiest to find in the U.S.