Amazing what can be recorded live on an iPhone - Live in Berlin was recorded in the Zig Zag club in the German capital earlier this year - and given the grittiness of the recording the audience sound picked up actually has a sense of reality to it that a lot of more finessed live recordings don't. We've long been a fan of pianist Aaron Parks in these parts, first hearing him live with Terence Blanchard and then later on his solo album Arborescence for instance. There's another Blanchard connection here in the presence within Little Big of bass guitarist David Ginyard Jr from the New Orleanian icon's E Collective and the bassist contributes non-Parks piece 'Right in Front of Me' while 'Sports' is by band guitarist Greg Tuohey. Tunes connect in these live versions with earlier Little Big material. Parks has a joyful exuberance in his improvising flow and while you can't really pin down what happens here to a strict genre anyone into the open philosophy of contemporary 21st century jazz way beyond the rules of bebop or jazz-rock will dig this. I get a little of the feel of a Lionel Loueke record in the passages where Tuohey comes more to the fore. Quirkily the album also comes as a cassette format release. SG