After a couple listens, I find it difficult to quantify how great this recording rates. However, I can suggest that Carlos Ward's solo rates in the top ten saxophone solos along with Braxton's 23J on Dortmund or Jimmy Lyon on Cecil Taylor's "Salty Swift" record. Carlos also played a short and ferocious stint with Taylor in the 80s.
This is one of the top ten jazz albums of all times, and used to be VERY hard to find! Get it now! The freedom and intensity here is off the chart. Some so-called "free" jazz is little more than bashing and squeaking. Not this! These musicians are using every moment to make dramatic, creative, original musical statements. This not musical wallpaper - it will demand your attention.... and greatly reward it. This is my favorite disc of Rashied along with the duets Interstallar Space by him and John Coltrane.
