A fantastic loft jazz session from the great reedman Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre – working here at a time when his genius was really unbridled, and his work on tenor was taking off even more strongly than on some of his early contributions to the AACM scene in Chicago! The set marks a much-needed example of Kalaparusha at work during a time when he was not that well-recorded – the set lies between his two early Delmark albums and his Japanese record on Baystate – and the whole thing is every bit as tremendous as you might expect, and a fantastic demonstration not only of the spiritual, soulful energy that made McIntyre so special, but also the way that his time on the New York scene was maybe bringing a sense of resonance there with earlier Chicago spirits. The group is great – with a young Malachi Thompson on trumpet, Alvin Fiedler on drums, and Milton Suggs on electric bass – an instrument that creates some pulsations that really hold the whole thing together – on three long improvisations that make up the album. CD