" data-original-title="" title="">David Angel, one of the West Coast's best-kept secrets, earns a long-overdue hour or three in the sun and makes every moment count on Out on the Coast, a superlative three-disc anthology that bundles fifteen of his luminous original compositions with seven jazz standards in an invariably pleasurable and charming package. When not teaching, writing or arranging, at home or abroad, Angel has led a Los Angeles-based rehearsal band for more than half a century. A list of alumni reads like a Who's Who of West Coast jazz royalty: Bill Perkins, Bob Cooper, Clare Fischer, Victor Feldman, Bob Brookmeyer, Jack Montrose, Herb Geller, Monty Budwig, Bob Enevoldsen, Bud Shank, Billy Byers, Stacy Rowles, Milt Bernhart, Bob Summers, Don Shelton, Conte and Pete Candoli, Kim Richmond, Gary Foster, Pete Christlieb, Art Pepper (on tenor sax) and many more. Which raises the question, why has a band as esteemed and proficient as this one remained almost unknown? More than likely, it would seem, because Angel and his comrades rarely leave their home base at the Musicians Union to play in concerts or clubs, and until now have recorded only once, many years ago.

That scenario was upended when tuba master