« A blistering pace onstage, numbers that were so new that Jon Hendricks had written out the more complex lyrics on cards propped against a music stand, short rehearsal time following a 400-mile jump from a gig that hadn't ended until 5am and the unenviable task of following a tremendous performance by Joe Williams - none of these things bothered Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan at the Newport Jazz Festival of 1963 as they kept an enthousiastic audience up to a feverish level with one of the most exciting sets they had ever turned in. »