A youngish Brooklyn-based saxophonist who studied with Liebman, Evans has been a baritone specialist since the age of 17 and has an impressive command of the beast, both expressive and technical. It's not his first album but the first involving the soprano maestro, which seems to have brought out the best in the leader and Marino, a frequent Liebman sideman. The solos of both saxes are unobtrusively offset by brief written material, as described in a lengthy press release denied to mere purchasers (suggesting that “the combination of the structural cohesion of Schoenberg's compositional rigidities with the looseness of spontaneous improvisation has created a work of profound meaning and expression” – hmmm). Maybe some of the aforementioned rigidity is retained in Stabinsky's piano work which, whether written or improvised, has a rather cold emphasis on one and three. But the album as a whole is worth hearing for Evans' ability and Liebman's inspiration.