I'm suddenly beginning to feel a distinct kinship with The Flying Dutchman. While he was doomed to forever sail the oceans, I feel that I am forever doomed to review every Grant Green reissue. Not so bad, for I have been a fan since his Blue Note debut Grant's First Stand. Nevertheless, this is another posthumous release – recorded in the same month as Oleo but not taken down from the shelf until 1980 when it was included on a Sonny Clark Quartets box set. It's matured well. Grant always claimed, that apart from Charlie Christian, his biggest influence was sax players. Perhaps that explains why he often recorded Sonny Rollins compositions. Here it's two takes of ‘Airegin’ (Nigeria spelt backwards). Pity he never got the opportunity to record with Newk, for his well thought out single string improvisations would quite probably have complimented the great sax man in the same way as Jim Hall did on their famous collaboration. Apart from ‘Airegin’ almost all the remaining selections are superbly interpreted standards such as ‘It Ain't Necessarily So’, ‘I Concentrate On You’, ‘The Things We Did Last Summer’, ‘The Song Is You’ and ‘Nancy’. As to be expected, Sonny Clark's contribution is nothing less than sublime, while Art Blakey proves the epitome of discretion.