Guitarist
Herb Ellis
still considers this to be one of his personal favorite recordings.
Ellis
was reunited with his old boss
Oscar Peterson
and, with the assistance of
Peterson
's trio of the period (with bassist
Sam Jones
and drummer
Bobby Durham
), the two lead voices often romp on the jam session-flavored set. Most of the chord changes are fairly basic (including three
blues
and
"Seven Come Eleven"
), and
was clearly inspired by
' presence (and vice versa). ~ Scott Yanow