combined with three tracks recorded at Grog Kill Studios in 1983 and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1984.

Fans of the Carla Bley Band will appreciate the group's jovial performance and loose, swinging style, but this is little more than a novelty album".

[4] The JazzTimes review by Willard Jenkins said "There's a comic, antic quality afoot here-and isn't that what one expects from Bley in regular doses?

Certain band members, including the boss, take turns letting the listener know in no uncertain terms why they are instrumentalists and not singers.

This one is perhaps even more madcap than usual because of the confluence of flat, non-singing singers balanced with a sort of Germanic romanticism that in places would have brought a smile to Kurt Weill".