If you thought Big Neighbourhood, Stern's impressive run out from a couple of years ago tapped a diverse range of sources, then All Over The Place is an even more impressive trawl through 40 years of American jazz, rock and beyond. And don't be fooled by the cast of ‘guests’: this is no-cut-and paste job of ‘stars’ sending their files in to get Pro Tooled together. This is a live in the studio, spit and sawdust job: there's enough jazz grease here to oil a Panzer division. You want straightahead, then look no further than ‘Blues For Al’ with Holland warm and swinging on acoustic bass, Garrett lyrical and tough and Stern touched by the blues, one moment Jim Hall but the next Buddy Guy. ‘OCD’ has a similar cool heat vibe, with the spirit of Joe Henderson as present as that of Miles, who of course hired quite a few of this cast. For the first time in 30 years, Stern has his wife on board and Leni brings her African infl uence to ‘Out of The Blue’ while Bona is suitably ecstatic on ‘Cameroon’. Stern's Rolodex (he has no computer, he has no cell phone) has every tough tenor in the States on board, and it's intriguing to compare the Chris Potter here (ripping it up on the storming ‘AJ’) with the Potter who plays with Stern's old mentor Pat Metheny. All Over The Place most certainly isn't all over the place: this could only be American music, steeped in the blues and bebop, two idioms that are straight from the Yankee heart, and we ignore it to our detriment.