Douglas has been here before of course, releasing a sequence of live recordings from the Jazz Standard with his band that featured the likes of Donny McCaslin and Uri Caine. That 12-set download was from a tour of 2006. This set of recordings, eight unedited live shows across four successive nights is as epic, weighing in with some nine hours of music that can be bought as individual nights or the whole shebang in a box. Either way you get the intimacy of the event without having to elbow your way to the bar. It’s also worth comparing these shows with the hyper successful Miles/Coltrane bootleg releases, if only because the over arching idiom of Brazen Heart is a pulsating post-bop drive. This is notable from the first Thursday set, with the likes of ‘Lone Wolf’, featuring Irabagon heartily rocketing along in contrast to the stiletto sharp precision of Douglas. But, of course, this is a band of vivid eclecticism, with the gospel soul of ‘There Is A Balm in Gilead’, replete with Oh’s testifying bass, a gorgeous complement to the more helter-skeltering bop tunes. And it’s always interesting to compare performances across the week. On Thursday ‘Going Somewhere with You’ starts like a cracked ballad, tentative, even fragile; come Sunday it again starts reflective but tighter, building to a confident stride that sets up the week’s climactic number, the aptly-titled ‘God Be With You ’Til We Meet Again’. It may have been nice to hear more of Mitchell stretching out, but his rock solid tempos lay the foundations for the front-liners to blossom.