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Charlie Rouse, the underrated tenor saxophonist, was one of the great individual stylists on his horn and he rose to fame as Thelonious Monk's saxophonist. He was with Mr. Monk for eleven years. Red Rodney was with Charlie Parker for three years in the early 1950's. Rodney and Rouse joined up in 1984 for this fine session of good Jazz tunes and one standard. They picked an excellent rhythm section in the persons of the late Albert Dailey on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and a young Kenny Washington on drums. Trumpeter/arranger Don Sickler wrote some fine arrangements for the horns and made them sound like a 'working' band. Tunes by Tadd Dameron, Gigi Gryce and Miles Davis etc. make up the repertoir. "Social Call" is a minor classic by two great, legendary musicians.....Charlie Rouse and Red Rodney.