This album, in tandem with a live concert recently witnessed, suggest that while Harrell's creative spirit remains undiminished, his allegiance to verities of mainstream hard bop/post bop of the 1950s and 1960s sees him becoming an honourable keeper of the flame of jazz of bygone years. This is not intended to be derogatory, the essence of that music should be preserved in the present and few are better qualified than he to do so. His impeccably lyrical trumpet has long been admired, indeed, it is difficult to imagine another context in which it might comfortably fit, other than in big bands such as he graced early on in his career. The absence of piano on this album is the only concession to modernity, while the trumpet/tenor front line (in a hard bop/post bop context now a cliché) succeeds in avoiding parody with the inclusion of the multi-movement suite based on Don Quixote – ‘Adventures of a Quixotic Character’ – that in its shifting moods provokes Harrell's best work on the album.