Title: What Allen Houser said about the recording.
Product review: first heard the Hard Bop bands of the 1950's and began to try to play their tunes in my teenage bands. The musicians of that era looked elegant, made records for the Blue Note label, and traveled around the country as jazz messengers. A group of us looked forward to each new record release and made it a point to be there when our heroes came to town. To this day, I continue to love and play the repertoire of this period. It was "art"music that was accessible to a larger public, black and white, than jazz enjoys today. I believe that the demise of the black community and, of course, the promotional genius of the rock music industry were two factors which contributed to what's happening now in both jazz and contemporary black popular music. This is my fifth recording, and I feel it is close, in spirit, to the joyful music that captured me some forty-five years ago.
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