Tenor saxophonist
Steve Grossman, who played with
Miles Davis' electric group in the early 1970s, is very much in a
Sonny Rollins vein throughout this excellent trio outing with bassist Juni Booth and drummer
Joe Chambers. The title is a play on
Rollins' classic Way Out West album, although most of the material (which includes "Trane's Slow Blues," "Soul Trane" and "Like Someone In Love") actually belongs more to the
John Coltrane songbook.
Grossman's tone echoes
Rollins while also hinting at his own developing personality, and his improvisations are consistently impressive. ~ Scott Yanow