Art Lange's liner notes to Cecil Taylor's "Olu Iwa" note that Earl McIntyre on this date was the first trombonist CT had recorded with in 25 years, since the cuts with Roswell Rudd on "Into The Hot" (now on "Mixed"), and the
"Candid pair of Ellington tunes -- ironically neither issued under Taylor's leadership (Gil Evans on the former, Buell Neidlinger on the latter)."