Blink and you could have easily missed Roosevelt Baby Face Willette whose stay at Blue Note amounted to just five short months. He was supposed to be one-third of the label's new funky house rhythm section with Green and Dixon his partners in crime. As things quickly transpired, Willette's role would soon be taken over by Big John Patton. During the last week in January 1961, this young product of the chitlin' circuit served sideman duties on Lou Donaldson's Here ‘Tis and Grant Green's First Stand before making his debut as a leader on Face To Face. One final session ensued in May, which featured bootin' R&B tenor man Fred Jackson – and Baby Face's association with Alfred Lion shuddered to an abrupt halt. Two further albums were cut for the Chicago-based Argo label and that was it. Green and Baby Face plus Dixon were a compatible unit. Avoiding the bluster of similar line-ups, they relied upon simplicity with Green's well thought out single string runs, while Baby Face frequently recalled his southern gospel/R&B roots and purposely avoided the kind of furious pumped up dynamics employed by attention-grabbing Jimmy Smith and Screamin' Brother Jack McDuff. The repertoire was of the then neighbourhood lounge barn variety: a few covers including Nat Adderley's ‘Work Song’ and a whole bunch of Willette originals that include ‘Soul Walk’ – his nod to the Messengers. Gone but not altogether forgotten.