Let me begin by saying that the music on this disc is great. If this review was just about the music, I'd give this recording five stars, no problem.

But the sound quality with regard to both the trumpet and saxophone is poor. Which is hard to understand because the rhythm section sounds great here. It's as though Freddie and Stanley were recorded in mono and the others were recorded in stereo. It is so bad a distraction that I just became unable to listen to this recording, so I wound up selling it to a well-renowned jazz record store. Maybe someone else can get into this and get past the poor sound quality.

I had been looking for this recording for years and was so excited when I realized it was out on CD. What a disappointment!