Other than a 1974 set for Strata-East, this post-bop effort was bassist
Cecil McBee's earliest recording as a leader. With
Chico Freeman (heard on tenor and flute) as the most impressive soloist,
McBee performs two originals and a piece by
Hal Galper in a sextet that also includes trumpeter
Joe Gardner, pianist
Dennis Moorman, drummer
Steve McCall and
Don Moye on conga. The music is spiritual in nature, sometimes quite modal and in the adventurous genre of
John Coltrane without being derivative. A fine live set, one of two recorded within a two-day period at New York's Sweet Basil.