Description
A Blue Note classic from 1963 and a sequel to the compelling ‘One Step Beyond’, this time with a rhythm section featuring Larry Ridley and Roy Haynes. A searching tranquility pervades these performances whose harmonic ambiguity, heightened by the absence of piano in favour of Bobby Hutcherson’s vibes, pushes McLean further away than ‘Let Freedom Ring’, if not into abstraction. The presence of Grachan Moncur III also, in a compostional sense (he contributes three out of the four originals here) as well as trombonist, acts as a perfect foil to McLean’s expressively bittersweet statements. Their affectingly lachrymal and desolate solos on ‘Love and Hate’ could be interpreted as eulogies to the passing of bop.
BN Connnoisseur series release from 1995. CD has some light scratches, insert has some wear.










