The more I listen to this album, I enjoy it more and more to the point that I am willing to give this a five-star rating. I enjoy hearing the control he has over his instrument. Johnson plays melodically and aggressively in his solos. It's not often that you hear a jazz album that has a featured trombone player. Occasionally he'll create a cool pattern using 4 or 5 notes that he'll repeat a few times. Horace Silver, on the other hand, plays very few notes in comparison to create his melodic ideas.
Johnson all reach points in their solos where they play long, quick phrases. Horace Silver himself is probably the most reserved soloist on this album. In "The African Queen," he switches back in forth from straight eighths and swing. The drummer Roger Humphries does a brilliant job with creating this feel with the means of removing the snare from the snare drum but still creating a swing feel on some of the tracks. Probably what I enjoy the most out of this album is the interesting combination of swing and latin/caribbean feels.
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