Reception

The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne's most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but...

 awarded the album 3 stars stating "the tracks basically having the flatness and relative lack of detail of the album's cover illustration. These performances have a lingering quality, however, certain moments eventually acquirng magic like illuminations, even though it is all mere residue under the fingers of players who seemingly can create beauty in their sleep".

Track listing

All compositions by Paul Bley except as indicated

1. "Notes" - 4:16
2. "Batterie" (Carla Bley
   Carla Bley
   Carla Bley, née Borg, is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other...
   
   ) - 4:38
3. "Piano Solo No.1" - 5:19
4. "West 107th Street" (Paul Motian) - 4:55
5. "Just Us" (Motian) - 4:26
6. "No.3" - 4:08
7. "Turns" - 4:40
8. "Ballad" - 2:31
9. "Excerpt" - 2:44
10. "Love Hurts" - 4:51
11. "Inside" - 5:16
12. "Finale" - 3:13
13. "Diane
    Diane (song)
    Diane is a song by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack originally written as a theme song for the 1927 classic silent movie Seventh Heaven. In 1928, The Nat Shilkret Orchestra had a hit with the song....
    
    " (Ernö Rapée
    Erno Rapee
    Ernö Rapée was one of the most prolific American symphonic conductors in the first half of the 20th Century...
    
    , Lew Pollack
    Lew Pollack
    Lew Pollack was a song composer active during the 1920s and the 1930s.Pollack was born in New York. Among his best known songs are "Charmaine" and "Diane" with Ernö Rapée, "Miss Annabelle Lee", "Two Cigarettes in the Dark", "At the Codfish Ball" , and Go In and Out The Window, now a...
    
    ) - 4:11
    • Recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milano, Italy on July 3 & 4, 1987.