Apart from his self-produced duo recordings with drummer Milford Graves, this was Pullen's first album under his own name, done two months after his contribution to Changes One and Two by Mingus and one month after The Köln Concert by some guy called Keith Jarrett. The approach of the four-months-older Pullen is quite different – bringing his experience of both R&B and straight-ahead jazz to bear, he's not afraid of sometimes using fairly traditional left-hand techniques, but his right is deliberately all over the place. (It was often compared at the time with Cecil Taylor, apparently to Pullen's displeasure.) The title-track, dedicated to his teacher Muhal Richard Abrams, has a conventional chord-sequence and much of the improv is surprisingly boppish. ‘Big Alice’, also recorded both with Mingus and with the Adams-Pullen quartet, is 10 minutes of a continuous Bo Diddley left-hand with an energetically varied right (the CD also has a nine-minute take). Despite his moment of more mainstream acceptance on Blue Note, the pianist has been overlooked since his death nearly 20 years ago, and this reissue of the 2000 CD edition is a welcome reminder of his talent.