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Ted passed away in 2012 at age 73. He spent much of his later years in Finland, where he was a treasured musician. He made many albums, but they are hard to come by, but worth the effort to find. That includes this fine hard bop album.Ted's moment of glory is playing on Charles Mingus masterpiece "Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus", surely one of the top 25 moments in recorded jazz history. If you don't have it, get it. Ted plays trumpet in a quartet where he matches the intensity of the immortal Eric Dolphy, and he perfectly interprets Mingus' artistic intentions.Many of Ted's later albums, including this one, have songs related to Mingus. "Reeva's Waltz" sounds like Mingus himself wrote it. Ted wrote all the numbers on this album. They are all winners. A few have appeared on his earlier albums, but they are played with fire and conviction by his band at the time.Prominent is the late great Baritone Sax player Nick Brignola. In my opinion, he is the greatest baritone player ever. With apologies to Gerry Mulligan, etc. nobody equals the speed, power and ideas spewed out by Nick. (I have reviewed several of Nick's albums on Amazon.)Young altoist Chris Woods and the 2 pianists Andy Laverne and Jim McNeely are as good as it gets, and have played with the best.Recorded in 1976, this album showed that jazz was not dead then, as some said, but alive in masterful players like Ted. I am so glad that Ted lived a long life playing the music he loved, even though he was not well known, and had to do it in Europe. Get this and Ted's other albums if you can search them out.