Initiated by and under the leadership of Desmond's German devotee Ilona Haberkamp, a group has assembled which consists of the pianist Frank Wunsch, who has played with Lee Konitz, of trumpet player Ack van Rooyen, the founding father of the United Jazz And Rock Ensemble, of bass player Paul G. Ulrich, who has been swinging with Paul Kuhn for many years, and of Bruno Castellucci, a drummer who is up to ever trick in jazz and rock music - each one a star on the European scene in his own right. First and foremost this is motivated by their own subjective and personal enthusiasm, even passion. Simultaneously, this effort proves the continuing fascination with what can succinctly be called the "Desmond feeling": head and heart, reason and emotion, sense and sensibility not as opposites, as they so often are, but walking hand in hand. And just as a critic used to attest a "cool and sparkling appeal" to this prototype of a Cool Jazz player, this is no less true for this CD: it is a kind of homage which can hardly be imagined any better, a "Desmond Revisited" which is - if that were possible - making Paul Desmond even more immortal.