follows up the lush nonet sounds of with a streamlined, hard-hitting quartet statement. Joining the ultra-chopsy but lyrical tenor saxophonist in a somewhat rare sideman appearance is pianist , with and in the rhythm section. The leader's in a high-spirited 6/4, kicks off the session; the remaining five originals run the gamut from the up-tempo of to the contrasting straight-eighth feels of and the complex title track, to the flowing close the album with a beautiful duet called and are both heard to great advantage on the two non-originals, 's ~ David R. Adler