The pick of this AfroCuban rollercoaster from drummer Robby Ameen and his crack band is the fresh treatment of Sonny Rollins' 'Oleo' but there are plenty of goodies here on these 7 tracks including originals by the leader. As an initial taster an Ameen number - the sticksman is known for his work with Horacio "el Negro" Hernandez - long in the band book opener 'Fast Eye' was out ahead of the album's full release. The sound is hard boiled - not-weedy-at-all - which is refreshing in itself. And not 1 but 2 monster tenor players are in tow in heavy hitter tenorist Bob Franceschini - formidable with Kevin Hays, Obed Calvaire & Orlando Le Fleming on their Led Zep hommage Whole Lotta Love - and Aussie ace ex-Joey D & Van Morrison Green Lights type, Troy Roberts. The horn ensemble sound is fattened out by Conrad Herwig with whom Ameen has worked loads.
Fans of Ameen will know 'Fast Eye' from 2020's Diluvio on which you will also find a jaggedly different deftly contrapuntal version that works of Trane's 'Impressions'
Trombone trouper Herwig was scalding hot on The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner. There's great cowbell from Ameen on 'Lucia's Wawa' to cool one.
The 'Wawa' Ameen tune was also snuck on to Overproof's Three Guys Walk Into a Bar in a head bobbingly larging it know the Sco-down kind of setting released 20 years ago. The line-up is completed by Edsel Gomez on Rhodes and by bassist Lincoln Goines (known for his work with the much missed Bob Berg). You gain the best Herwig solo going higher up his register on the piece. Seattle jazz indie Origin are having a great year and this - recorded at a Tribeca art shop on Chambers Street called Philip Williams Posters in New York - is among their best.
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