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Acting as a fascinating flip-side to the legendary Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet sessions, this recording remarkably features the exact same ensemble functioning under the saxophonist's leadership. The brilliant frontline interplay highlights the leader's massive, authoritative tone driving complex, deeply swinging improvisations. It is a highly celebrated, muscular showcase of East Coast hard bop recorded shortly before the tragic dissolution of the famous quintet.