Consider this the best album in the Blue Series, although it's not in the Blue Series. Powerful, extremely thoughtful and spontaneous improvisation, and a monstrous, earth-shattering groove from Parker and Drake. It also seems just about official with this album that Rob Brown is one of the absolutes of music in our time. His playing is truly singular and always full of surprise. The only question is, "Why hasn't someone given Louis Barnes the album under his own name that he so obviously deserves?"