After he stopped teaching in 1974,
Lucky Thompson permanently dropped out of music. On what would be his final album,
Thompson (along with keyboardist
Cedar Walton, bassist
Sam Jones, and drummer
Louis Hayes) performs five mostly straight-ahead originals, "The Moment of Truth," and the standard "Cherokee."
Thompson, switching between tenor and soprano, was still very much in his musical prime at the time of this LP but apparently soon became sick of the whole music business, a major loss to jazz. He plays quite well throughout the set. ~ Scott Yanow