For his debut as a leader, drummer
James Zitro leads a couple of lengthy blowouts ("Freeken" and "Happy Pretty"), plus the dense "Fourth." With altoist
Allan Praskin, tenor saxophonist
Bert Wilson, trumpeter
Warren Gale, pianist
Michael Cohen, and bassist
Bruce Gale keeping the ensembles quite crowded, these mostly free-form performances will be seen as either fascinating or monotonous, depending on one's viewpoint. The best is the 22-minute "Freeken," which develops gradually before reaching a rather ferocious level.