Another example of Prestige's policy of stretching out past the confines of the three-minute recording, instituted with Zoot Sims in August 1951. While this October session does not include any numbers that take up an entire LP side, no track is less than 5:23, the title track is 7:33, and the classic "Bluing" is five seconds short of ten minutes. It also spotlights three young musicians–Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop–who grew up playing in the same Harlem neighborhood band during the first flowering of bebop.

with Jackie McLean, Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter, Art Blakey