The good news: New York Stories Vol 1 is a terrific CD. As well as Gatton, there is Joshua Redman on tenor and Roy Hargrove on trumpet (and four other great musicians). "One For Lenny" is as good as any guitar performance I have ever heard, no kidding. It is so full yet fluid that the YouTube rendition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR0grs9joy0 reveals only perhaps half the notes I can hear through my Stax headphones. This man was obviously one of the best guitar players that ever lived. And he wasn't even a Jazz specialist. I can say that he had the speed, articulation and Jazz sense of Joe Pass, plus the all chops of a Pat Metheny and a first rate classical guitarist. And the ability to combine everything in the Jazz idiom.
The bad new? Firstly, Danny is dead, having killed himself. The word is that depression over poor record sales was a major cause. Secondly, good luck finding a high quality CD. Amazon burns it to recordable CD on demand. It seems to be out of print. It is a 1992 Blue Note release. Thirdly, as mentioned above, there is so much going on that a first class stereo is required to bring it all out.
Highly, highly recommended. Not many weak tracks on the record. My downloaded copy has ten songs for some reason. Nine are listed everywhere. This is not the soundtrack of the anthology movie, by the way.
Clark