3.6 - On the syllabus of some college "Jazz Appreciation" seminar, I imagine this record would be assigned as an optional listening activity. There'd be an asterisk next to the title with an explanation that the university owns only one copy and it's shelved within some forgotten basement archive. If I had taken this course, I'd treat this optional assignment as an opportunity to suck up to my professor during office hours ("Professor, how do I make sense of this album within the free jazz movement??") The first half of this record sounds like violence - like watching a conveyer belt full of live puppies being dropped into a meat grinder, or experiencing a high-speed train derailment upon an active volcano. Somewhere around the middle, the vibe relaxes to a frantically-paced bebop. I think I actually like this?