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Title: as predictably good as hot chocolate after sledding
Review: If you know nothing about a particular jazz CD but see Art Blakey on drums, you can bet it'll be a good one (you can say the same thing about Jimmy Cobb). This lineup features big names Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter, and also well-regarded Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, and Jymie Merritt. The lineup's promising, and the songs are very solid. They seem pretty even to me, I don't want to name the best and worst songs, because my opinion is hardly set into stone. There are also bonus versions of four of the six songs. The original album at 40 minutes is a decent length. The thing that makes this a 4-star CD is that there aren't any GREAT songs, they're merely all good. If it had a song like "The Egyptian" or "Moanin'", it'd be a 5-star CD.
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