After quitting Gerry Mulligan's original pianoless quartet, Chico Hamilton successfully established his credentials as a small group leader by way of a quirky chamber-jazz quintet with a signature sound created by a blend of cello, guitar and flute. Though somewhat fixated with what became a somewhat quaint approach, it was years before people realised that the quintet had been a springboard for radical sax players that included Paul Horn, Charles Lloyd and, in this instance, a young Eric Dolphy who participates on both these albums. Though he's featured mainly on flute, when he switches to alto sax on ‘Nature By Emerson’, ‘Tuesday At Two’ and Billy Strayhorn's ‘Passion Flower’ (all on Gongs East!) things are transformed from an overall melancholy mood to that of a less cold-blooded pseudo-soundtrack offering. Dolphy's ‘Miss Movement’ which opens The Three Faces…and his alto solos on ‘More Than You Know’, ‘Newport News’ are the only things worth lending an ear to while Chico's vocals are nothing less than dreadful and should have been scrapped. End of message. Over and out.