Finnish multi-reed player Innanen is one of the most impressive young musicians in his country and his profile in Europe really should be much higher. That he has built a strong working relationship with the likes of stately New York veterans such as Parker and Cyrille is a sign of his ability to mix it with the big boys, so to speak, and this 2CD set is another valuable entry in the Innanen discography. The first disc features the trio performing his compositions and as much as the material stands out for its balance of precise structural grounding and ‘open sky’ passages it also appeals due to the wide timbral range of the leader's arsenal of reeds and wind instruments. While the nose flute and whistles inevitably invoke Rahsaan Roland Kirk, it is the use of the Indian clarinet on ‘Look At The Red Door’ that proves a highlight. This quite bewitching ballad, in which the reed gurgles gently over the hushed rumble of Cyrille's tympani sticks and Parker's guimbri-style chording, has a quiet fire that crackles with every edgy legato from the leader's horn, and underlines the considerable maturity Innanen has already achieved as a player. The second disc is an hour-long duet between Innanen and Cyrille, a format of which the latter has prior experience, most notably with the late Jimmy Lyons. In this spare, stripped down setting the power of each instrument really comes to the fore, especially with Mikka Huttunen's pinpoint engineering, but the finesse with which a high trill or chattering rimshot is executed also gives the session a certain gravitas. This disciplined work is a great advert for jazz as an inter-generational trans-continental art form.