Charles Sepúlveda is multi-talented. He’s a striking trumpeter with a thick vibrato, a composer, a bandleader (The Turnaround is now over 20 years old, with the bassist an original member) and now a professor at San Juan’s Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico. The legendary Eddie Palmieri is his cousin and mentor and employed him in his orchestra at an early age. He also toured with Dizzy Gillespie’s International band. But The Turnaround is what keeps him most active. And, very important to this project, he’s just got married again, so this album is for new wife Natalie, rather than the late Nat Adderley. His music is much more traditional than contemporary latin jazz. As he describes it, it’s a mixture of that early blend with hard-bop and basic Puerto Rican styles like bomba (‘Frenesi’), danza (‘Estampas’) and plena. In places, it has a Horace Silver sound with congas added. Ortiz is a busy, bop-era tenor-player and Dinzey is an interesting pianist. But Sepúlveda is the star, with a special mention for the soulful ballad named after his new wife (‘Natalia’) and the closing 10-minute, relatively free-style track based on an Eddie Palmieri composition called ‘La Liberated Logico’ (‘Liberty’).