‘With Due Respect’ is the title track but respect is also what is shown by Chris Byars (44 when this album was made) in his arrangements of the music of Freddie Redd, and respect is what the pianist (more than double that age) shows in return for the second summer Byars has created for him with this revitalisation of his music. As Byars remarks, Redd's compositions are like “Bird meets Cole Porter” in that while they have all the content a bop soloist might want they also have structures that would earn them a place in the Great American Songbook. The younger arranger brings a richer tonal and timbral palette to the music with trombone and bass clarinet as two thirds of the frontline, and with his use of flute. The rhythm pair give the whole vehicle Rolls-Royce suspension. Redd leaves quite a lot of the soloing to his younger bandmates, but his own improvisations have the concision and elegance that only really comes with the wisdom of the years.