The provenance of some of this previously unreleased music is obscure, the personnel details and circumstances pretty sketchy too, but it can be safely asserted that the album's dozen tracks, many live, feature the ex-Kenton trumpet maestro either with his UK-based band (1968-1971) or its later US counterpart. The collection moves from strong, big-band performances, cast conventionally, through to his later success with more rock-inclined material. Thus it's the British band's 1970 version of ‘A Train’ in a Don Sebesky arrangement that opens, offering ample testimony to this band's vigour and fiery attack, overlaid, of course with Ferguson's high-note bravura. Thrilling stuff for sure and followed by ‘People’ in ballad mode, Ferguson again dominant and finishing in the trumpet stratosphere as he does on ‘Living in the Past’, a live performance eliciting rapturous applause and rightly so. ‘Got The Spirit’ is marked by Pete Jackson's funky piano and has moments from the excellent Gary Cox on tenor while ‘Geller's Cellar’ is more relaxed, this studio recording featuring MF on both trumpet and valve-trombone, alternating between the two in Clark Terry fashion. ‘Sweet Rosetta’ is by the US band, MF staying in the section, and features Johnston and Hahn, the jazz-rock feel more evident. This is further exemplified on ‘Three More Foxes’, with MF, Hahn and Summers going at each other at full tilt, and by that rock-opera standout ‘Tommy’, with electric keyboard and plenty of appropriately vibrant riffs and drum patterns plus MF's extraordinary final flourish. If the solo IDs are tantalisingly few and much remains a mystery, this collection again highlights Ferguson's virtuosity. He was ‘awesome and the greatest trumpet player in the world’ according to his bandmates quoted on the sleeve, a true one-off, even if the high-note cadenzas and grandstand finishes can pall after a while. Make it five stars for excitement, if that's your bag. Loud and proud, you could say. Four stars for the rest of us. Perhaps best sampled a track at a time.