All you need is a great drummer and bassist and a saxist with protean ideas about improvising on a familiar theme soloing over the top - that's what For All We Know seems to be saying and saying it in such no-nonsense fashion. Drummer Joe Farnsworth and bass icon Peter Washington give ideal support to altoist Jim Snidero here on a set of familiar standards - my only carp is the material ('My Funny Valentine,' 'Naima,' 'Willow Weep For Me' and so on) is too familiar. But what Snidero is able to do even given this with his reactions to the themes in his improvisations is the really interesting customised bit - what he does to 'You Go To My Head' in particular one of the highlights on, yes, a real ''bebop heads'' album is a track you will be returning to time and time again. SG
Out on 16 February. L-r in the photo: Kenny Washington, Jim Snidero, Joe Farnsworth. 'Parker's Mood' from the album is streaming
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