RUBY BRAFF, JOE NEWMAN, SWEETS EDISON, JOHNNY GUARNIERI, MICHAEL MOORE, RAY MOSCA ( Nice, 7

An absolute triumph not a cutting contest, but a jovial conversation among three brass legends (Braff, cornet; Sweets and Joe, trumpet) with a thoroughly congenial modernswing rhythm section (the splendid virtuosi Johnny Guarnieri, piano; Michael Moore, string bass; Ray Mosca, drums). All of them are powerfully distinguished individualists but they have their roots in the same source: a mixture of florid declamatory phrases and subtle sideofthemouth whispers and injokes, loud blasts and halfvalve