Trumpeter Tom Harrell's long and highly respected career is marked by sound musical craftsmanship often enlivened by lyrical grace, all achieved battling the debilitating effects of schizophrenia. That said, this is not one of his greatest albums nor is it one of his worst. It sits firmly in the middle ground, some good moments – his flugel solo on ‘Right as Rain’, for example – but the respectable mainstream fare he serves up, the title track for example, with its predictable head-solos-head format speaks more of jazz's golden age in the 1950s and 1960s than of today. Although he does make a concession to contemporaneity by performing ‘Blue ’n’ Boogie’ as a trumpet/drums duet, overdubbing trumpet lines on ‘Journey to the Stars’ to produce a brass choir and the freewheeling disposition of ‘GT’, Harrell's heart lies in a bygone age, as his rock solid craftsmanship on ‘Star Eyes’ and Tadd Dameron's ‘A Blue Time’ reveal.