Essentially a double hander between Kavita Shah and Lionel Loueke, Visions is a daring and ambitious work that casts its net wide. Even with a press biography at hand, it is hard to unpick the musical heft in Shah's life and cultural background. Growing up in New York played a key role in her musical development. This was shaped by having a gamut of western popular music into hip hop to continuing her post-Harvard Latin American studies in Peru and Afro-Brazilian favela music in Brazil and New York. The breadth and depth of this work is illustrated by the range of music that she tackles, in the main extremely successfully. Joni Mitchell's ‘Little Green’ – with its soaring kora (African harp) passage – and M.I.A.'s ‘Paper Planes’ are highlights. Less successful for me – probably owing to only having a rudimentary appreciation of latin American flavourings – is her own bossa nova composition ‘Moray’ (more than outweighed by it having won the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award in 2013). Elsewhere, ‘Rag Desh’ hits imaginative spots much like Ravi Shankar's Music Festival From India did. The rag's concluding ‘Meltdown’ section (with its use of string quartet) is especially arresting.