"...a world-class band, a marvelously cohesive group that touches all bases to produce a sound that is strictly its own."
-Chris Albertson, Stereo Review

"Drummer Bobby Ward is a true living legend. Ward is part of the Boston modern drum continuum that includes Roy Haynes, Alan Dawson, Tony Williams and Clifford Jarvis, yet he has remained a well-kept secret. A polyrhythmic marvel behind the traps, Ward has also begun writing lately."
-Bob Blumenthal, Boston Globe

Winner-Boston Music Award (1995): Best Jazz Album on an Indie Label

Personnel: Henry Cook, s, fl; Cecil Brooks, tp; Jacques Chanier, pn; Brian McCree, bs; Bobby Ward, dms.

Tracks: 1.Arabesque; 2.Echoes of Nichols; 3.Prayer for Bosnia; 4.Appointment in London; 5.Sequences of the Duke; 6.Mind's Eye; 7.Dimensional O.D.C.

"It's hard to overstate the amount of excitement, energy, originality and depth that the Cook/Ward sextet brings to this set...Ward (is) one of the great unsung heroes of jazz drumming..."
-All Music Guide, Jan 2000

"They went to Detroit ready to play and the audience dug it! Mingus would have enjoyed how they risk bursting the seams of "Fables of Faubus". Cook (is) a reckonable force on both E-flat reeds. This band sounds like no other!"
-Jazz Times, June 2000

"The Henry Cook Band (is) absolutely tearing it up on this live recording...truly new and exciting...artful, creative and good music...leaves the listener wanting much, much more."
-Jazz Weekly, Mar 7, 2000