The album was recorded after the longest hiatus the band would have from the studio due to financial difficulties and Kenton's growing health problems.

Though the piece is one of the highlights for the band during that era, the solo by Terry Lane is weak and pointed out in later notes by Bob Curnow, "Stan did not hire most of the guys, Dick (Shearer) did.

"[1] Samba De Haps is the first of several works written by Mark Taylor that the Kenton band recorded for the last two studio albums; he would create a distinctive signature and a name that is well known in the music publishing world.

[1] Bob Curnow gives great credit to Hank Levy, "Time For A Change was a fantastic chart, the way it's put together, and the way the band swings within the meter.

And if listen to the end of a Pat Metheny pieces called "Every Summer Night", it closes literally with the first four measures of 'Decoupage'."