The band comprises Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone), Jim Rotondi (trumpet), Steve Davis (trombone), David Hazeltine (piano), John Webber (bass) and Joe Farnsworth (drums).
[1][2] The group was formed in 1997 for an engagement at Smalls Jazz Club and recorded its first album, Too Soon To Tell, for Sharp Nine later that year.
Hazeltine and Peter Washington began performing with the former four players in 1996 at the jazz club Augie's, which would later be re-opened as Smoke.
[3] Washington was replaced by John Webber, and the band has since signed to the Criss Cross label.
[4] Critic David Adler of JazzTimes has called One for All "New York's premier hard-bop supergroup,"[5] while Matt Collar at AllMusic called the band "one of the foremost mainstream jazz ensembles to come out of the '90s.