Voyage
Context
Track from What If?, an album recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's on February 17, 1986 for the German label Enja. Barron leads a quintet there with Wallace Roney and John Stubblefield, both early in their careers at the time, Cecil McBee and Victor Lewis; Dusty Groove judges that its long compositions recall his best Muse records of the 1970s.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop, Neoclassicism, Young Lions. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).