"This collection is about Forbert when he and his generation were young, hungry and bursting with ambution and ideas.  In retrospect, thre was not much distance bewteen the fresh-faced epiphanies of Alive On Arrival, the blustering confidence of Jackrabbit Slim, the edginess of Little Stevie Orbit, and the morning afershocks of Steve Forbert.  In retrospect, Forbert's skill never faltered; it was our prespective of him that changed.  As the titles suggested, those albums were just four different ways of seeing the same young artist, four different ways of seeing ourselves." - Bill Flanagan, December 1992