The story behind this album may be inspiring, but the music itself has to stand or fall on its own merits. This it does, the backstage drama surfacing only in the ironic humour of a couple of song titles – ‘Screws’, ‘Scotch Tape and Glue’ and, of course, the album's title track. What is on offer is a showcase of powerful, electric jazz. It's well enough known that New York is home to many of American jazz's finest, and on Trip Stern has brought several of the Big Apple's best to the table. Brecker contributes a couple of solos that must surely number among his finest on record, the “saxists”, to borrow the nomenclature characteristic of the leader, “blow their asses off,” while any one of the three drummers used on these sessions number among the pick in electric jazz, able to groove on the most complex rhythmic configurations. Stern plays with the celebratory abandon of someone who has been through the mill and has finally emerged on the other side [Stern was recently injured running for a taxi – Ed] – there's an edge to his playing here that grabs your attention. Ultimately, however, it's the sheer energy and ability of these musicians, who have been around the block and then some, to make the complex sound easy on number like ‘Half Crazy’, ‘B-Train’, ‘Screws’ and ‘Watchacallit’ that makes this album so compelling.