The album features performances by Taylor with Archie Shepp, Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles.

Some of the tracks the pianist chose to release on this album were improvised, single-take pieces, while others were the result of multiple takes.

[1] In a review for AllMusic, Brian Olewnick wrote: "One can only imagine what the reaction of the average jazz fan was in 1960 when this session was recorded.

This is a wonderful document from early in Taylor's career, when he was midway between modernist approaches to standard material and his own radical experiments that would come to full fruition a few years hence... What's extra amazing is how deeply entrenched the blues feel and pulse are in this music, already bound for the further reaches of abstraction.

This session, which has been released under numerous guises, is an especially fine introduction to his work, keeping enough of a foot in 'traditional' jazz forms to offer one purchase while dangling breathtaking visions of the possible within one's reach.