Seabrook has been touring extensively with this band and it shows. Audiences have liked their music and it's easy to see why. Having set out initially to perform the music from Kind of Blue, Seabrook has now added a roster of other compositions connected to Miles, as he says, “in a very general way” and that's what we (and the Bury St Edmunds & Warwick audiences) hear here. Thus ‘That's What’, an upbeat modal tune inspired by ‘So What’ receives a bristling work-though, the on-form Barnes entering at speed and it's only the first element in an impressive seven-part suite of original pieces. These and four more separate themes combine to make this a very attractive release, thoughtful and considered yet full of jazz potency. The moody ‘Dark Moments’ has a serene solo by the Miles-ian Flowers and is followed by the very jaunty ‘Boppin' for MD’ with yet more sinuous alto and the kind of neat, upfront theme that defines the hard bop manner, Flowers again impressing with his fluency and Price adding his own hoarse-toned commentary. All in all, Seabrook has produced an album that will repay the attention of those who relate to Davis' music yet want something that avoids slavish replication. He's clearly got a gift for interesting composition and with Wells and Whitford on board, there's a compelling commitment to creative outcomes. Each of these pieces has merit, their performances as wholehearted as you could want, Seabrook's notes explaining their derivation and the musical concepts involved. He turns in some pretty good solos too. Admirable music.