Cycling is in full, if often chilly, swing. Fruit trees and wildflowers are blossoming. On today’s 30-mile expedition through the back country heights, I came across this field in bloom and didn’t want to keep it to myself.
“Hello To The Season,”( to quote the title of a piece from Gary McFarland’s Point of Departure with Richie Kamuca, Jimmy Raney, Willie Dennis, Steve Swallow 
and Mel Lewis). I thought that this exquisite 1963 album had long since lapsed into unavailability. But this web site claims to have it as a CD. If that is true, run, don’t walk, to order it while it’s still around. At any moment, it could disappear again.
Doug–Thanks so much for letting us know about the availability of this recording on CD. I just ordered it.I bought the LP in college when it first came out. It featured one of my favorite tenormen–Richie Kamuca–not only playing tenor but double reeds! I have been looking for it on CD for years. It is a shame that Gary’s memory has faded over the years. He was a huge contributor to jazz in the 1960s. One of my best musical memories was seeing him live in San Francisco with a sextet that featured Phil Woods & Gabor Szabo.