Tenor saxophonist Houston Person's best work isn't on High Note, a label he has been with for many years, but far further back to when the very mainstream swinging US leader was in his Prestige pomp or appearing often even more effectively on other people's records, notably Charles Earland's Black Talk (1969).

The very weary tempi selected on a lot of the numbers here is an issue even when the drummer is as fine a player as Lewis Nash who is keeping a lot in reserve. There is some good soloing particularly on the title track from the erstwhile Diana Krall guitarist Russell Malone but Person's chops don't sound brilliant maybe not at all surprising given that horn players have it very tough to maintain their full vigorous sound when they reach their eighties if they can play even moderately satisfyingly, like Person can, at all.

The twinkling take on 'Again' that Ida Lupino so winningly rendered in the 1948 noir Road House also covered that year by Vera Lynn nearly won me over. But 'Moon River' is reedy and shrill. The title track is jollier and kept to last.

Better by far re Person you knew and Person has a significant body of achievement down the years is certainly to go back to the Charles Earland record mentioned above because Reminiscing at Rudy's is for High Note collectors and completists only.