This album is wonderful! It's classic jazz at it's best, it swings like crazy and Ray Brown lays down the bass lines like only he could do. Monty Alexander and Russell Malone are great as well. If you're a fan of soulful swingin' jazz you will love this recording!

The reviewer must be a drummer, or a jazz snob. The recording is what it is, which is excellent and I love the classic drummerless trio. It is a format that Ray Brown enjoyed playing in through his entire life and Malone and Monty sound terrific. Ignore the review and go ahead and own the album.

To say that this sort of combo was only recently popluar when this album was recorded shows how little the reviewer knows about jazz period. The drummer-less trio, made popular by Nat Cole in the frickin' 30's is nothing new. This is a solid Nat Cole style recording. Monty did this a couple of times with Ray, I think the other most notable album had Herb Ellis on it. These recordings are really great new takes on this classic combo and harken back to the original Oscar Peterson Trio - once again, drummer-less.