This welcome release brings back into the catalogue Kuhn's most loved album. By the time it was recorded, the former Harvard graduate had amassed a wealth of experience playing with the likes of Ornette Coleman (at the Lenox School of Music), John Coltrane (he preceded McCoy Tyner in the Classic Quartet), Stan Getz, Gary McFarland, Art Farmer, Oliver Nelson and more. The album highlights Kuhn's ‘touch’ on the piano, attributed to the ‘Russian Style’ he learned while studying under the legendary Boston piano matriarch Margaret Chaloff. It is very much to the fore on the title-track, a haunting, circular theme that quickly takes up residence in the memory where it replays and replays over and over, sometimes at the most unexpected times. The remaining seven tracks maintain a freshness and vividness that have not diminished with the passage of time. ‘Life's backward Glance’ is especially memorable. Kuhn would gather considerable critical plaudits (if not financial reward) for the quartet he formed with Steve Slagle, later replaced by Sheila Jordan, but this record has stood the test of time and is surely his finest work.