Eighty years young, and Senor Palmieri knows a thing or two about life, latin jazz and cross-cultural collaborations; this album, his first in a decade, is a birthday jam pulse with the sort of borders-down energy found in a meet of musicians at the top of their game: bassist Marcus Miller, conguero Johnny Rivera and Fania violinist Alfredo de la Fé. Here are sambas from Brazil via New York, with the mallets of vibraphonist Joe Locke chasing each other on the gorgeous ‘Samba Do Suenho’; from Cuba via West Africa, and featuring the great Oawo Sado on bata, comes ‘Wise Bata Blues’, a cats-cradle of drumming grooves that morph into agile hard-bop. Throughout, Palmieri and his tight-knit four-strong crew of core players are clearly having a ball, with the octogenarian pianist firing on eight cylinders – one for every decade. As they say in Latin America, aguaaa…