Tenorman Charles Brackeen's third of three Silkheart CDs (recorded at the same session as Attainment) matches his powerful playing with cornetist
Olu Dara, bassist
Fred Hopkins, and drummer
Andrew Cyrille. All of the Silkheart sets are worth picking up, but this one (due to its extra intensity and the five particularly strong
Brackeen originals) gets a slight edge.
Brackeen's passionate playing shows that free jazz was still very much alive (if underground) in the 1980s. ~ Scott Yanow