A curiosity that probably should be credited to Bob Thiele rather than either Basie or Oliver Nelson, on a par artistically with his 1973 pairing of Ellington and Thiele's wife Teresa Brewer. The repertoire includes five Nelson originals (two done first for Jimmy Smith and three more ‘adventurous’, while the other three tunes are by – wait for it – Pharoah Sanders, Gabor Szabo and Albert Ayler. The fact that it doesn't work is underlined by giving the bulk of the solos to Hubert Laws, while Nelson himself plays self-consciously avant-garde alto on Ayler's ‘Love Flower’, which the reissue annotator attributes to Lockjaw Davis (he obviously went home for Christmas early and missed out the second day). The only two in-house horn solos are on the opening track – unidentified even in the original notes, but by Waymon Reed and Eric Dixon – while the Count's occasional pianistic verve is almost the only link to the band's own virtues.