Turning 60 in a few months’ time, Forman has had a distinguished sideman career, with John McLaughlin and Wayne Shorter among others, as well as recording several albums in his own right. This latest is an acoustic piano trio, with minimally audible overdubbing of his three other instruments on a single track each, and it conveys a rather mixed impression. Opening with a rather somewhat dour version of Jarrett's ‘Death And The Flower’, Forman goes on to cover pop material from Cole Porter to Cyndi Lauper and Jonatha Brooke, but there's also a straight ballad interpretation of Bacharach's ‘Alfie’ and a routinely funky ‘Nostalgia In Times Square’ by Mingus. One of Forman's six originals (‘Bounce’) is even a 340bpm rewrite of ‘I Got Rhythm’, but his preferred territory seems to be the straight-eights feel with more oblique chording. All very presentable and professional, but not consistently memorable.