Lee Morgan's trumpet cuts through and adds so much bite to these songs. There is a version of the tune, "Happy Cause I'm Goin Home" (by the band Chicago)that is simply brilliant music! A lively, happy, upbeat and very bright version.
Throughout all of the songs included on this record the drummer fuels a unique, powerful high-energy.
The Hammond B-3 playing by Charles is plentiful here: Lots of long solos where Charles stretches out ... over and over again; against the heavy backdrop of a barnburner.
I kept looking at this CD in a display bin in the big music retail store downtown for months before I took the plunge. Then I ordered many CD's by Charles that followed this one; one of the all-time great Charles Earland CD's. A different sound here; not merely the run-of-the mill organ combos with these names. No way. Powerful, driving ensemble playing backing up burning B-3.