When an A-list dream line-up are assembled to support a relatively unknown leader, it tends to bring out the sceptic in the reviewer. But the New York-based saxophonist Adam Niewood is the man definitely in charge of this tender tribute to his late father Gerry, a widely-admired saxophonist who died in a plane crash in 2009 on the way to performing at a concert with trumpeter-flugelhornist Chuck Mangione, with whom he had a long association in the mid-1970s. Following his 2015 CD release, Homage, Niewood Jr makes another selection of the many unrecorded compositions discovered after his father's death. A few of the tunes might sound familiar, but it's perhaps that they're derivative period pieces, with the Charles Lloyd-ish ‘Essence’ nonetheless boasting a striking song-like melody. It's difficult to escape the giant shadow cast by John Coltrane on the soprano sax from the 1960s and Niewood doesn't attempt it, his tenor playing presenting a more playful tone and bebop-infused vocabulary. The all-star cast modestly serves in the shared intimacy. Maestro DeJohnette's sparklingly colourful percussive palette is a highlight and on the closing ballad they act as sumptuous support to Niewood's songbird soprano.