This is the fifth CD by the pianist Aaron Goldberg (Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis) with the former Charles Lloyd group rhythm section of Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland, their collaboration with Goldberg starting in the late 1990s. He's a pianist that draws both from the glossily lyrical end of romanticism of say Oscar Peterson or Bill Evans, and the more contemporary, post-bop piano-jazz palette of Brad Mehldau. The opener is a wonderfully tender take on Chico Buarque's melancholic ballad ‘Trocando Em Miudos’ and Brazilian music appears to be an expressive vehicle for Goldberg and his exquisite touch is evident also on Djavan's pretty ‘Triste Baia da Guanabara’ and Toninho Horta's ‘Francisca’. The focus is on interpretation rather than composition, with very few originals, and Goldberg is both richly and subtly eloquent without over-asserting his abundant technique. Also included is the Haitian folk song ‘Yo Yo’ and a creatively economical solo on a classical canon form for Charlie Parker's ‘Perhaps’, next to an impossibly quick spin on Warne Marsh's ‘Background Music’. Although the influential guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel guests on the final track, the Pat Metheny-esque soft fusion original ‘One Life’ proves a disappointing climax. But it doesn't detract at all from the high quality jazz on the rest of the album.