This is a fine jam session-flavored set featuring pianist
Don Friedman
, baritonist
Pepper Adams
, trombonist
Jimmy Knepper
, bassist
George Mraz
and drummer
Billy Hart
.
Knepper
and
Pepper
match together musically as well as their names do on three standards, a four-song ballad medley and selections by
Sonny Rollins
(
"Audobon"
) and
Adams
("Hellure"). The emphasis is on extroverted bop during the enjoyable session, which, in its CD version, adds three alternate takes to the program. ~ Scott Yanow