Tenor-saxophonist Dave Van Kreidt, a former member of
Dave Brubeck's octet in the late '40s, had a reunion with the pianist, altoist
Paul Desmond and bassist
Bob Bates for this unusual session;
Brubeck's new drummer
Joe Morello made the group a quintet. Van Kreidt supplied all of the compositions (some of which are fairly complex), giving this set a sound very much different than the usual
Brubeck Quartet outing. Interesting if not essential classical-influenced music that predates the Third Stream movement. ~ Scott Yanow