This track is attractive because the famously relaxed trumpeter Chet Baker is performingwith Archie Shepp, who is an outstanding example of the experimentalimprovisation termed "free jazz". We have here a fascinating andexciting jam highlighting a brilliant practioner of a what we'd call a mellow,melodic style with an Avant Gard genius of the period. Shepp, of course, isfiery and unpredictable with what his solos will contain even in a context thiscomparatively conservative; I find it amazing to here him in a chart-driven,swinging context and realizing he can more than cut the mustard. He brings hisown thing to it, his solos are his alone. Baker, to be sure, appears energizedby Shepp's presence--his phrase remains hushed and frayed around theedges--there are few perfectly round notes in Baker's playing--but it issomething else again when he double and triple times his riffs against therhythm section. Baker's playing gets an unfair rap, I think. At his best hecould do much more than many give him credit for and , when alert and prepared,was in perfect control of all his gifts.