Pretty generic as a whole but two tracks leap out, the first a wonderfully gutsy blues drenched vocal by Milton Suggs covering 'Heart Full of Rhythm,' a song identified with Louis Armstrong that you rarely hear these days. And even better a tender version of 'Helen's Song' by George Cables kept to the end which really is a treat. American Ulysses Owens Jr - best known for his work with Christian McBride - is a fine drummer and he has technique to burn. And mentoring his newcomer Generation Y band here he has one hand in the 1990s as this is such a ''young lions'' kind of neobop recording and one in the retro-loving now he makes sense of the tradition in transition in vibrant fashion.
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