A considered dip into arranger-composer Vince Mendoza's long collaboration with the Metropole Orkest from the Netherlands guests include singers Dianne Reeves and Cécile McLorin Salvant while saxophonists Chris Potter and David Binney and percussionist Alex Acuña are among the instrumentalist fire power. Mendoza draws inspiration from Cervantes on opener 'Quixote' and his stylistic palette, where you often hear a flavour of Gil Evans in his writing, also factors in a Brazilian dimension on 'Partido Alto.' Rather than pick out one piece it's better to see the album in the round given the panoramic vision in the writing and the grand orchestrated outcomes available at every turn. Norma Winstone's wise lyric on Mendoza's 'House of Reflections' sung exquisitely by McLorin Salvant ''you know that the road you travelled can't be travelled again'' stays with you lingeringly. Out today