It may be unfair to compare this recording to the seminal album recorded on ESP almost 35 years earlier, but such comparisons are hard to resist. In truth, the group – now with Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) assuming an expanded role and bassist Reggie Workman substituting for the late Lewis Worell – sounds as fresh and, yes, revolutionary as it did back in the heyday of 1960s radicalism…
A wonderful collector's edition of jazz pianists' records in almost all styles from the first ragtimes to modern jazz.