Filmed a year before Evans’s untimely death at age fifty-one, this concert at the Maintenance Shop at Iowa State University shows the pianist in command, playing with control and grace. Songs include "Who Can I Turn To?" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come," and the consummate closer, "Nardis."

Lacy just might be the finest soprano sax player of them all, and this film includes not only Lacy’s performances but those musicians who influenced his sound: among them, Gil Evans, Sidney Bechet, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk. The last showed Lacy the way to "lift the bandstand."