From the very first second, beginning with the magic drumming of Max Roach, right up to the very last note, this LP will overwhelm listeners with its sheer power ? hard bop is certainly no easy fare for lovers of beautiful sounds. One is swept along in a maelstrom into the unknown, and is taken to wherever the soloist's wealth of ideas leads him. That's particularly clear in the case of "Caravan," "Lands End" and "Gerkins For Perkins": the brilliantly interacting quartet, all of them soloists with "equal rights," race through the numbers like an express train.