The double bass jazz maestro Dave Holland turned 70 in October but shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, he seems to have turned up a gear or two instead; his recent work in education, live touring schedule and studio recordings bear that out. Last year saw him record an intimate straightahead duo album The Art of Conversation with Kenny Barron and before that, one of the best jazz recordings of 2013 with his new ‘electric’ fusion group Prism. The Aziza collective grew out of discussions between Holland and Chris Potter, an influential saxophone musical partner of his since the 1990s. As with Prism, the electric guitar is a key building block of the ensemble but this time it's the Benin-born Lionel Loueke, another pedigree individualist, who applies his unique mix of African folk music, contemporary electric sonic effects and jazz to the recording. His acid funk composition ‘Aziza Dance’ has a brilliantly shaped solo with tasteful keytar-like sound effects, somewhat reminiscent of the pianist Hiromi. Chris Potter's lilting folky Caribbean ‘Summer 15’ has Loueke sounding more like an African Pat Metheny and the saxophonist's eastern-flavoured ‘Blue Sufi’ really hits the spot with its 1970s-era Chico Hamilton-ish latin fusion sound and Loueke's driving psych jazz-rock guitar. It hasn't quite the same sense of adventure or raw group cohesion as his Prism CD, but it's top level groove-jazz playing all the same.