Of all the titles released in the excellent Flying Dutchman series this is arguably the jewel in the crown: a session whose rarity is matched by its quality. Best known as a key west coast collaborator of a young Ornette, Bradford nonetheless made several important albums himself, and this co-led session with versatile reeds man Carter finds him on cracking form. The two horn players have the right balance of punch and economy to suit rubato arrangements that swell and break like the waves washing against a beach, with its evocative drift wood, seen on the album's cover. Indeed the passionate clarion calls of each individual as well as the tantalising melancholy of some of their unison statements, none more so than the brilliant ‘The Eyes Of The Storm’, are gripping, as is the loose but precise dovetailing of the two freewheeling bassists, Franklin and Williams and the excellent drummer Freeman. Ebbing and flowing between tenderness and violence, this is a session with a dramatic rather than histrionic character that shows the spirit of the ‘New Thing’ was alive and well at the end of the 1960s.