One Step Beyond Reviews

This is my first taste of Jackie McLean and I loved it. What I also loved was that the two tracks written by Grachan Moncur III are awesome and now I want to check out his stuff too. This is my kind of jazz and I knew I would like this album because I'm such a big fan of Coltrane and Mingus and this album has a lot of that feel to it as some of the Impulse! albums had in the 60's. Tony Williams is insanely brilliant on this and the vibes are awesome too. The only reason this doesn't get a 5/5 for me is because I don't like the bookends on Ghost Town much and there was a few hisses on a couple tracks. It was as if they had to switch LP sides when transferring these tracks to CD, but they didn't need to switch sides so I'm not sure what the hisses are from. Bad masters maybe? Overall though this is a killer album!