Warren Wolf is certainly the best new vibes player to emerge in recent years and this, his second outing for Mack Avenue, is very different in contrast to his debut, where his playing tended to be very much in your face and featured mostly hard-hitting swingers. Though the accent here is on originals with accessible melody lines, when the groove calls for it, he still takes every opportunity to play fast and loose. There are two different rhythm sections here – Goldberg, Funn and Williams, then Green, McBride and Nash. Both pianists are in fine form: Goldberg on the relaxed opener ‘Sunrise’, the uptempo burner ‘Grand Central’ and the swinging ‘Late Nerrano Flow’ (Wolf’s name spelled backwards). Benny Green, a relative stranger to records these days, gets down and dirty on ‘Frankie and Johnny’ with McBride stating the stomping theme and equally on the bluesy ‘Things Were Done Yesterday’. There’s a bossa track with Tookes’ voice adding harmony and two titles with the label’s new pianist Aaron Diehl. One is a Wolf original, conceived with a choir in mind: the second, a rather hackneyed classical waltz (‘Le Carnaval de Venise’), which starts out fine, but goes on interminably. A shame he didn’t stick with the swingers.