Who remembers actor-singer-director Ida Lupino now? A fair number of jazz fans may know of her principally through Carla Bley's 1964 musical tribute, which provides the title for (as well as a tune on) this charming quartet disc – though if you're expecting the album as a whole to provide you with greater insight into the career of Ms Lupino, you may be disappointed. The track appears to have been included as a tribute to Carla Bley in her 80th year (trombonist Gianluca Petrella was once in a big band she directed) and her late husband, Paul. With the exception of the protest song ‘Per i morti di Reggio Emilia (To the Dead of Reggio Emilia)’, written by the Turin folk singer-songwriter Fausto Amodei, the rest of the material here was provided by the players. The quartet is built around the regular Italian duo of Petrella and pianist Giovanni Guidi, augmented here with US drummer Gerald Cleaver and French clarinetist Louis Sclavis. The set as a whole is gorgeously played, and no less beautifully captured by producer and ECM main man, Manfred Eicher, who is cited by Guidi as the group's ‘fifth musician’.