Tenor saxophonist
Teddy Edwards and trumpeter
Howard McGhee had played together regularly from 1945 to 1947. For their recorded reunion, they are assisted by the masterful pianist
Phineas Newborn, bassist
Ray Brown and drummer
Ed Thigpen.
Edwards,
McGhee, and
Brown contributed one new song apiece which alternates with a trio of standards ("You Stepped Out of a Dream," "Misty" and
Charlie Parker's "Perhaps"). The trumpeter was having a short-lived comeback at the time and he had largely regained his earlier form.
Edwards sounds as strong as ever and
Newborn was an up-and-coming talent. Their collaboration for this boppish date is generally quite memorable.