Put pianist Hod O'Brien, bassist Ray Drummond, and drummer Kenny Washington in a club, record them for two evenings, and your are pretty much guaranteed to get at least one CD of excellent music. However, "Live at Blues Alley - Third Set" is fifty nine minutes of music "rejected" by Hod when we were selecting the material for the first two CD's. "But to my surprise, I found the music highly inspired", Hod explains. There is a level of excitement sustained on all of the selections, which include "It Could Happen to You", "Easy Living", and five of Tadd Dameron's classics.