For his second and final ESP date as a leader, avant-garde tenor saxophonist
Frank Wright teams up with four little-known players (altoist
Arthur Jones, trumpeter
Jacques Coursil, bassist
Steve Tintweiss, and drummer Muhammad Ali) for passionate explorations of four of his originals plus Jones' "The Lady." Rather intense at times, these emotional performances (which, unusual for an ESP date, clock in at over 50 minutes) still sound groundbreaking three decades later. One of
Frank Wright's finest recordings. ~ Scott Yanow