"From the first track of this record—in Blue Note's 45rpm double-disc reissue series—tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon certainly seems to be doing just fine. That opener, 'I Was Doing All Right,' lilts along with a nice 'n' easy, early 1960s treatment of an insistently positive George Gershwin melody. Gordon doesn't rush his solo, but allows it to intensify naturally from the surrounding breeze. He explores the entire range of his instrument, allowing his pace to ebb and flow while never jettisoning himself from the track of comfortable swing. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard enters on—and retains—a brasher course, slashing through a stream of jagged, harmonic lines. Pianist Horace Parlan goes farther afield, injecting the tune with some passing abstract figures. ..."
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