For it’s no surprise that one will be stunned into reverential silence from the very opening chords of “With Pride for Dignity”, a chart written by the pianist, and which in the grand manner of a glorious Negro Spiritual. And all at once you are introduced to more than the extraordinary musicianship of the members of this trio but by the powerful humanity of the African American idiom as practiced by three of its creators in a manner than can never be usurped by anyone, no matter what the their technical skill.