Barry Altschul

That's Nice is a quartet and quintet album led by drummer Barry Altschul, recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milan on November 25 and 26, 1985 and released by Soul Note in 1986. The front line pairs trombonist Glenn Ferris with Sean Bergin, who plays both alto and tenor saxophone, over the bass of Andy McKee. Pianist Mike Melillo joins on two of the five pieces, which turns the quartet into a quintet and explains the Quartet / Quintet credit. For three of the five pieces there is no chord instrument at all, only two horns, bass and drums.

Giancarlo Barigozzi engineered the session and Giovanni Bonandrini produced it, with liner notes by Dan Morgenstern, cover art by Niridan and a photograph by Bertrand Servenay. The quartet plays the first two pieces, Ahfra Love and Blues Interrogation, each a little over seven minutes. Melillo comes in for Satarumbarengue and for the title track, which runs close to ten minutes. The album ends with its longest piece, the twelve-minute For 'Papa' Jo, 'Klook' And 'Philly' Too, back in quartet form. Five tracks fill about 44 minutes, none of them shorter than seven.

This is the Soul Note CD 121115-2 of the album first released in 1986 as SN 1115.