Add Jack Wilson + a stunning Blue Note backline at VGs studio = One of the finest hard bop albums i've ever heard. This album is so underrated that i'll be basically transcribing the whole thing because it's that good haha.

As Leroy “Sweetpea” Robinson a noted west coast based Alto saxophonist and one of Eric Dolphys earliest friends described on the liner notes to the album:

“Todays jazz artists generally do note speak the same language. But this has always been the jazz tradition - that although an artists approach a form differently, the inflections, personal expressionism,s feeling of exploration and innovations are the potent substances which make the music or the soloist rich with importance and thoroughly stimulating. And so it is with pianist Jack Wilson, who, like many of the innovations extant today, is deserving of wider recognition and a spot right up front where the other giants reign.”

I couldn't have said it better myself.

Lee Morgan (trumpet) Jackie McLean (alto sax) Garnett Brown (trombone) Jack Wilson (piano) Bob Cranshaw (bass) Billy Higgins (drums) recorded Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, September 22, 1967