Childs, who turned 60 in March, got off to an early start with J.J. Johnson and then Freddie Hubbard, and has since developed into a composer-arranger while continuing to make piano albums, some of a new-age or classical leaning but all with an interesting harmonic language. A highlight of this return to small-group jazz is his closing duo with Wilson on Horace Silver's ‘Peace’, as is the quartet reduction of the ‘Windmills Of Your Mind’ chart he did for Dianne Reeves (on the album When You Know), in 12/8 and with an intriguing reharmonisation, but without the string sextet and without Reeves. The rest of the material is all original and has two vocals, the title-track containing a wordless, almost Winston-esque theme for Acuña, and ‘Stay’ being an affecting love-song for Olatuja. But the meat of the album, which comes accompanied by detailed praise from the otherwise-oriented Vijay Iyer, consists of some intense post-bop lines featuring the fleet pianism of the leader and the impassioned saxophone of the equally underrated Wilson.