The follow-up to
Leroy Vinnegar's first Contemporary album, this CD reissue matches the excellent bassist (who is mostly content to back the other soloists) with trumpeter
Freddy Hill, tenor saxophonist
Teddy Edwards,
Victor Feldman on piano and vibes and drummer
Ron Jefferson for four of the seven selections; the other numbers also use
Hill and
Edwards along with pianist
Mike Melvoin, vibraphonist
Roy Ayers (at the beginning of his career) and drummer
Milt Turner. The set (which has three originals by
Vinnegar,
Edwards' "Wheelin' and Dealin',"
Don Nelson,
Les McCann and
Freddie Hubbard in addition to the one standard "I'll String Along with You") helps define the modern mainstream of the early '60s, when cool jazz was being replaced by hard bop.