Out of uniform, Moffit sounds like a guy on weekend leave, tearing into his off-the-base solos as though he’s been waiting to play this way for decades. Similarly, the charts inspired by arrangers such as Neal Hefti and Sammy Nestico fly by like a brisk walk down the hallway practice rooms at North Texas State circa 1985… the most effective moment comes at the end, a tender duet between Moffit and Arlene Pritchard McDaniel’s Rhodes piano on “But Beautiful” that sighs with bittersweet regret.

-Roll Call by John Chacona