This was his second for Prestige Records, featuring Kenny Dorham, Elmo Hope, Percy Heath, and Art Blakey, and one track with Thelonious Monk, Tommy Potter, and Art Taylor.

[1] The first 4 tracks had originally appeared on as the 10-inch LP Sonny Rollins Quintet Featuring Kenny Dorham (PrLP 186), and the final track had appeared on the 10-inch LP Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk (PrLP 190).

[2] At Allmusic, Michael G. Nastos called the group "one of the more potent combos of 1954.

"[3] Author and musician Peter Niklas Wilson called the album "simply a typical blowing session, in which virtuoso up-tempo playing and a wealth of invention in a well-known framework count for more than structural innovation".

[4] All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated Recorded on August 18, 1954 (first four tracks), and October 25 ("More Than You Know")