There appear to be two recent Universal reissues of OOTC, one with the five original tracks and one adding the interesting but relatively conventional Evans score of Horace Silver's ‘Sister Sadie’ done at the same time. This public domain release has all that plus nearly 30 minutes of bonus material. The basic album is important as the first to show Evans leading a band that performed live, thus refl ecting more reliance on soloists which, however, justifies the spaciness of the charts. Ballads featuring Knepper (‘Where Flamingos Fly’) and Coles (‘Sunken Treasure’) are glorious, while the episodic 12-bars ‘Stratusphunk’ (by George Russell) and ‘La Nevada’ (140 per cent longer than the studio recording) retain interest every step of the way. Happily, the bonus tracks begin with that previous ‘La Nevada’ and the 1956 ‘Flamingos’ chart backing Helen Merrill (done with a smaller band, but managing a surreptitious quote from ‘Blues For Pablo’). Contrary to the annotation, Gil actually played no part in the last three bonus tracks (from Into The Hot) beyond inviting trumpeter-composer Johnny Carisi, who wrote ‘Israel’ for Birth Of The Cool and ‘Springsville’ for Miles Ahead, to contribute new material. And fascinating it is, more through-composed than Gil's own work but deserving not to be forgotten.