The Connection, the now legendary play by Jack Gelber and subsequent film was a play-within-a-play first performed in 1959 by theavant garde Living Theater of New York. The story-line depicts a group of addicts brought together in the pad of a dope dealer by a movie producer whois filming a documentary. As the production unfolds, the junkies drift about a loft waiting for Cowboy, their "Connection" as four jazz musicians on stage among them provide a chilling counterpoint to the happening. Composer/pianist Freddie Redd, one of the original four musicians on stage recorded this album of his score in 1960. It is a jazz classic of two-fisted hard bop featuring trumpet great Howard McGhee, saxophonist Tina Brooks, Ossie Johnson on drums, and Milt Hinton on bass. Produced by Alan Lorber & Ernest Kelley.