On his first set as a leader since the 1960s,
Red Holloway is heard on tenor, alto and baritone, in addition to taking a good-natured blues vocal on "Sylvia Is Her Name."
Holloway wrote five of the six songs, none of which caught on, and used L.A.-based musicians (keyboardist
Dwight Dickerson, guitarist
Shuggie Otis, bassist
Richard Reid and either
Gerryck King or
Jimmy Smith on drums) for this likable but obscure straight-ahead outing, which has not yet been reissued on CD.
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Scott Yanow, Rovi