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The James Taylor Quartet's final album for Acid Jazz, first issued in the summer of 1996, was a return to their roots with 11 tracks of straight-ahead Hammond instrumentals. It is the sound of the touring Quartet - which was a six-piece, plus a percussionist - doing what they did best: playing together. The music stretches from Lonnie Liston Smith-style jazz funk, through out-and-out funk, tinged in places with touches of Keith Emerson. To the album tracks have been added DJ Derek Dahlarge's remix of the album's single `Creation' done under his Ceasefire moniker, the first time that this has been available on a JTQ album. Also included are the three cuts that were added to the US release of the album. These were intended to be part of the soundtrack to Mike Myers' first Austin Powers film, although only `Austin's Theme' is heard anywhere in the film. It is the first time that the other two tracks - `Man Of Mystery' and `Theme From A Far Away Land' have been available outside the US. BGP's reissue is carefully remastered and features an in-depth sleeve note from compiler and former Acid Jazz A&R man Dean Rudland. The booklet features previously unseen photos from the Acid Jazz vaults.