It may not be cutting-edgeaa but this debut release from Tricotism – featuring established jazz hands Craig Milverton (piano) and Nigel Price (guitar) and comparative newbie Sandy Suchodolski (bass) – is full of melodic and improvisational sparkle, proving there's life in the old tradition yet. Milverton has long had a thing about Oscar Peterson – what self-respecting jazz pianist doesn't? – and this new trio is very much modelled on the Canadian's classic drummerless trio. Four of the tunes they perform are drawn from the Peterson compositional catalogue – ‘Sushi’, ‘Place St. Henri’, ‘Wheatland’ and ‘When Summer Comes’. The output of other mid-century keyboard modernists also features: Bud Powell's ‘Webb City’ and Thelonious Monk's ‘Eronel’ allows space for Price in particular to spread out; Billy Strayhorn's ‘Isfahan’ provides an opportunity for an extended display of delightfully evocative romanticism. The title track, an intricate fast blues that demands, as its title suggests, a good deal of its interpreters' digits, is the only original and brings the set to a rousing conclusion.