Curtis Fuller accepted an invitation to record with the Mile High City's top cats last summer and this enjoyable session is the result. The trombone star of John Coltrane's classic Blue Train album sounds in remarkably good shape at 77, his drily fuzzy tone and JJ Johnsoninspired style virtually unchanged since his Blue Note days. The local heroes also do themselves proud on a neatly arranged set of mainstream-to-modern originals, notably pianist Stephens and saxman Oxman, who organised the session and plays nimble tenor with a light, bluesy tone reminiscent of Harold Land. The date's only ballad, ‘Then I’ll Be Tired of You’, is his feature. The biggest surprise is Al Hood, a perky, hard-swinging trumpeter who sounds like an amalgam of Clark Terry and Clifford Brown. His name rings a distant big band high-note-screamer bell, but clearly he's done a lot of woodshedding since then.