Cyrille is one of the key figures in the history of the drums in improvised music insofar as he has significantly expanded the vocabulary role of the instrument beyond time-keeping. Now in his late seventies, Cyrille’s creativity shows no signs of waning, and he follows 2016’s Declaration Of Musical Independence with another notable session that brings him together with two other master musicians in trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and guitarist Bill Frisell. There is a kind of hovering, floating quality in much of Cyrille’s playing, which has a flexible pulse and carefully shaded timbres, particularly his cymbal work, which blends effectively with the languorous character of Frisell’s chords and single-note spirals and the shimmer of Smith’s brass. All of which suits material that often has a quality of deep lament, with melodies emerging, flickering and submerging without neat interludes or turnarounds, though there are well-handled peaks of energy in which Smith, in particular, stokes a mighty fire. The composure with which Cyrille performs, leaving significant space in some arrangements yet making his interventions decisive, brings to this album an understated majesty and noble beauty from which many could learn a great deal.