Bassist, singer, long time academic at Herbie Hancock's alma mater Grinnell College in Iowa the Mexico born Gabriel Espinosa, who has down the years collaborated with fellow Mexican Birdman composer Antonio Sánchez and the great singer Tierney Sutton, delivers a vibrant mix with plenty of big names dotted about including friends and ''jazz household names'' - notably piano icon Fred Hersch on a couple of tracks, the New York Voices' Kim Nazarian and stellar clarinettist Anat Cohen on 'Mi Jarana'. On the latter piece Espinosa explains that the number emanates from ''a traditional dance and musical style of Yucatan, Mexico. The Jarana meter can be in 6/8 or in 3/4''. Linwood Bell and Jeremy Fox contribute significantly to the arranging, highlights are certainly a version of easy listening staple the toothsome Carpenters' 'Sing' arranged by Fox - and even better at the heart of it all and probably the song to return to most, covered in recent years stirringly by Rachael and Vilray, the swoonsome 1940s Cuban bolero 'Nosotros' sung so tenderly by Gerardo Flores.