Tenor saxophonist
Billy Mitchell's second album as a leader (following a 1960 Jubilee date) was last available as a Trip LP in the early 1980s. Although the tenor saxophonist is in typically fine form on six obscurities and two standards ("Sophisticated Lady" and "You Turned the Tables On Me"), this record's main significance is that it features the young vibraphonist
Bobby Hutcherson, who was virtually at the beginning of his career. Five of the eight songs also include trumpeter
Dave Burns, pianist Billy Wallace, bassist
Herman Wright and drummer
Otis Finch, while the other numbers have organist Sleepy Anderson in place of Wallace and
Burns. Mainstream hard bop of the era. ~ Scott Yanow