This quartet, with trumpeter Fred Berry, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Alvin Fielder, had been working together for close to a year before they gathered at the instigation of Fielder in the studio of WUCB radio station.

[2] The Down Beat review by Peter Margasak states "This is incredible, rigorously rehearsed and researched music made only less radical by what followed it—but in 1965 this would have blown minds.

"[3] In an article for the Chicago Reader, Margasak wrote: "Before There Was Sound isn't as groundbreaking as what followed... but the band was already blazing its own trail.

"[4] Writing for Point of Departure, John Litweiler commented: "Here's one to gladden the heart, a CD full of song, swing, youth, energy, creativity...

I've been looking forward to hearing this music for a long time, for its historical importance.