Over 20 years, award-winning altoist Zenón has made a number of albums that celebrate his Puerto Rican heritage, but he has always made clear his debt to the American masters. As part of the San Francisco Jazz Collective, Zenon had already played Ornette Coleman's music and attested to the sheer exhilaration it induced, so this interpretation of songs by the man who marked the ‘Change Of The Century’ comes as no surprise. Leading a quartet that is nothing less than rocket-fuelled, Zenon is on sparkling form and the deft lyricism that has marked so much of his work is supplemented by an intensely energetic attack that is well supplemented by Ariel Bringuez's robust tenor. But push-button role playing of Ornette and Dewey Redman is not really on the agenda and the two horns as well as the drums and bass bring an improvisatory verve as well as group cohesion to the table that makes the work crackle with vitality. If anything, it is also a timely reminder of the creative kinship of Ornette and Charlie Parker, or how the former took the freedom of the latter on his own game-changing flight of fancy.