Roy Haynes has always been at the forefront of dramatic changes in jazz. In an expansive career that has seen him integral to Charlie Parker (1949-52) and thereafter Miles, Monk, Rollins, Getz through to Dolphy, Coltrane, Shepp, Chick Corea… it would be easier to list those he hadn't supplied his distinctive beat. A highly competitive player, he has strived to stay in fashion. This was the early 1970s and if the clothes didn't quite cut it, the Hip Ensemble's take on things was a hybrid of a soundtrack looking for a budget Blaxploitation movie and a handful of New Thing screams and scrabbles from the hyper-active George Adams and Mervin Peterson (‘Satan's Mysterious Feeling’) plus a version of Nat ‘King’ Cole's ‘Nothing Ever Changes For You My Love’. Carl Schroeder doodles on electric piano, all that seems to be missing is a mandatory wah-wah guitar.