Wilson met Medeski on his first night out, after moving to Boston in 1987, the pair subsequently working together in the Either/Orchestra. Here, Medeski guests with the drumming leader's longrunning quartet, sticking to purely acoustic piano. Wilson provides around half of the material, favouring concise retro shorties, all themes and no elaboration, packed with immense detail and shorn of all extraneous matter. The other half's devoted to oldies by the likes of Duke Ellington and Charlie Rouse, delivered in the swingin’ Blue Note manner, either in a directly pouncing 1950s-style or soulfully sliding up to the '60s, all the while re-mulled for the present moment. Lederer's tenor solos leave teeth marks, on the edge of a honk. Medeski takes spidery pathways, Knuffke prances across the tightrope, and Wilson embellishes with a sprung tension. Duke is played as if he's Monk on ‘You Dirty Dog’, with a pristine cornet solo and a sleazy, nocturnal howl from Lederer. On the gratifyingly 9 min ‘Pumpkin's Delight’, Lightcap takes his only solo, partnered by the leader's splashy cymbals, this exuberant album closing up with a delicate duo from Wilson and Medeski.