A great record – and on that hardly ever shows up on the radar screen of Gil's career! The session was recorded with a very hip group that includes
Billy Harper on tenor and flute, Elvin Jones and Alphonze Mouzon on drums, Joe Beck on electric guitar, and Herb Bushler on Fender bass. The sound is a bit electric, but is touched with Evans' far-reaching arranging style, so that it lapses into none of the cliches you might expect.
Harper is a treat, as always, and he offers up the original composition "Thoroughbred", one of the nicest on the record. "Blues In Orbit", "Variation On The Misery", "Proclamation", and "Spaced".
(Early 80s issue, still sealed with a cut corner, light wear, and a small sticker spot.)