''Parker? There's them over here can play a few aces too'' - Joe Harriott

An album dotted with less than essential rap and dub if more of the tracks were like 'Plight' there would be more to grip on to given that elsewhere there is little of the same intensity. Part of an effort to mythologise Dalston's Total Refreshment Centre this groove record yokes together mostly easy going rhythmically appealing pieces lashed together by mid-tempo grooves that has Maisha's fine drummer Jake Long important in the sound. It's ironic that trumpeter Byron Wallen's contribution is often the most listenable within the ensemble given that he hails from an older generation that got far less attention than his younger colleagues especially Stateside back in his first flowering as a player of eminence in the 1990s. Think on Joe Harriott's gravestone epitaph about his own even worse neglect back in his day and apply it, say to the way the Grammys ignore UK jazz while firmly holding UK pop close to their bosom, ''Parker? There's them over here can play a few aces too''. It's not the greatest example of the strength here by a long way but certainly the fact Blue Note are putting it out shows a willingness to promote agenda setting aspects of the London scene in the US along with its even better Re-Imagined explorations. Out today