Bobby Bradford, Frank Sullivan

One Night Stand catches the trumpeter Bobby Bradford far from his Los Angeles base, playing a concert in Gainesville, Florida, on November 11, 1986 with a rhythm section billed as The Frank Sullivan Trio. Bradford had spent decades in partnership with the clarinettist John Carter, and some of his compositions stayed in his books for decades. The Gainesville concert, held at the Thomas Center, gives seven long performances across nearly an hour.

Frank Sullivan plays piano, Scott Walton bass and Billy Bowker drums, a quartet with Bradford as the only horn. The opener, Comin' On, runs for more than eleven minutes. Bill Shoemaker, writing in Point of Departure in 2009, traced it back to Bradford's London sessions of the early 1970s and heard "an Ornettish theme that flirts with resolution a few times before committing". Woman and Ornate are the other two long pieces, both close to twelve minutes, and Sho' Nuff Blues and All The Things Your Mother Didn't Tell You sit in the middle of the set. In the same issue of the magazine, the flautist James Newton, who had played alongside him in Los Angeles in the 1970s, wrote that "it is impossible to confuse one note of Bobby Bradford with that of any other trumpeter or cornetist".

This is the Soul Note CD 121168-2, the album's original edition, first released in 1988 according to Discogs.