Sheffield Lab was the brainchild of musician, Lincoln Mayorga and engineer, Doug Sax. The award-winning natural sound of Sheffield Lab has been recognized throughout the world as the reference standard for musical and sonic excellence. Sheffield Lab was the label that single-handedly brought audiophile recordings to high profile status with the astonishingly realistic quality of their direct-to-disc recordings.

A talented keyboardist, Pat Coil has thus far stuck mostly to the commercial side of jazz in his own projects. He began piano lessons when he was eight and, by the time he was a young teenager, Coil was leading his own bands, playing rock, country and a bit of jazz. He attended North Texas State University for four years, performing with their One O'clock Lab Band. While still in college, Coil often gigged in Dallas and Ft. Worth. His most notable association was playing, touring and recording with Woody Herman's Orchestra for 2-1/2 years in the late 1970's. After leaving Herman, Coil worked in Dallas as a session musician for five years. His band, Recoil, released two albums: Pardon My Fantasy and The Fantasy Continues. He had the opportunity to substitute for Lyle Mays with Pat Metheny's Group on a few occasions. Coil eventually moved to Los Angeles where he worked in the studios. He toured with Carmen McRae for a year, recorded with Ernie Watts, Nancy Wilson, Grant Geissman, Scott Henderson, Natalie Cole (her Unforgettable CD) and a variety of pop artists, and in the early 1990's recorded two solo albums for Sheffield Lab that fell into the "contemporary jazz" genre. - Scott Yanow

This listing is for a long out of print, rare audiophile CD title - a FACTORY SEALED CD PRESSED and ISSUED by Sheffield Lab of a highly collectible title from the Sheffield Lab catalog, featuring -

Pat Coil

Steps

Performers include -

Track Listing -

1. Sierra Highways
2. Roads Less Traveled
3. Big Paper, The
4. Wisdom to Know, The
5. Steps
6. Way It Looks from Here, The
7. Son's Remembrance, A
8. Show Your Children Love
9. Just for Today
10. Trails of Angels

The CD is from the rare Sheffield Lab series of audiophile CDs (long out of print).

• CD made in the USA
• CD issued in 1991
• CD catalog # 10031-2-F

The CD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT condition as this item is actually FACTORY SEALED!

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).