Yet another album released to ride on Coltrane's rising fame. Here he wasn't even leader of the band as these were originally recorded under Pepper Adams' and Cecil Payne's names, which explains the somewhat unusual instrumentation for a Coltrane record with multiple saxophones and baritones, which gives the album a bigbandy sound in places eg the intro of 5. The label just released this as a Coltrane album, but it really isn't quite. Still a fun listen, and within his discog it brings quite fresh stylistic devices - which makes sense since it's not really him is it. 1 is a really fun caravan-esque track that offers more than its intro lets you think, and the main highlight here with the other bookend, 'Cat Walk', which is perfectly titled really need I say more. The intro to 3 is cool, but 2,4-5 kinda feel like you know a fun but meandering session that is a good listen but really won't stick in my memory, although parts of 5 are quite cool. Not quite a Coltrane record, and probably not the one you should check next. 3.4
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