CHARLES MCPHERSON alto sax
ROSS TAGGART piano
JODI PROZNICK bass
BLAINE WIKJORD drums

Released March, 2003
Recorded July 26th and 27th, 2002

McPherson's wiry, Bebop, alto saxophone technique keeps the tempo going strong and hard... At 63, he performs with the same force and fluid control that he employed when working with Charles Mingus many decades distant. His incisive emotional direction comes from a life long mission. Before a summer time nightclub audience, McPherson shows 'em what it's all about. While blazing fast and furious on Dizzy Gillespie's 'Blue & Boogie' for example, he launches fistfuls of tone clusters in practiced fashion. Notes are flying everywhere, and the quartet holds it together tightly. It all fits comfortably in the end.