While Shepp's decision to forgo his saxophones and voice and perform solely on piano may be the main talking point of this session the presence of the little recorded Al Shorter is also notable. All of which is problematic. Shorter only appears in the latter half of the set and lacks the creative impulse that made his own solo work so interesting, and, as he is badly miked, his work on the Afro-latin stomp of ‘Worried About You’ gets swallowed up by Shepp's comping. Both the ropey engineering and lack of group cohesion scupper the performance before it has a chance to really get going. Elsewhere Shepp takes on standards such as ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’ and ‘Doodlin’’, and he simply doesn't generate enough ideas to really carry the tunes from start to finish. Only on the title-track, a dark-hued Shorter original recast as a duet between Shepp and bassist Reid with an astute detour into Matt Dennis's ‘Invitation’ does Shepp reach a brooding intensity that is not unattractive. An uneven entry in his discography then, a disc that needed the hand of a strong producer to guide it to a better place.