Truly an excellent album, and easily one of the best of Shepp's career. Sanders' work just following the death of his mentor, John Coltrane, stands as some of his very best. It consists of just two tracks, essentially continuations of themselves. All you've got to do is clap your hands. . . It's a recipe that works. . .
Sanders also heads further out than in the first track, but the shrieking is spare and appropriate.
The core personnel carries over, with Michael White added on violin for the first three cuts, and four African percussionists for the closing three. Michael White's violin hardly needed. The classic session from the Fall of 1972 is well-known by Sun Ra collectors, and its reissue is sure to cause some excitement. By the final notes, it's tired and showing its kitschy skeleton. More kitsch, if good-humoured kitsch.