From the first few bars of the piano intro to ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ you'll know you're in for a blues-drenched treat. Houston Person has been associated with Joe Fields' labels for many years now, both as an artist and producer. He's really old-school jazz, with Gene Ammons perhaps his biggest influence. You can tell he knows the lyrics to everything he plays by heart – including the verses. And he wants you to dance to his music. He was recently quoted as saying: “Growing up, when I saw Duke Ellington and Count Basie, they weren't playing a concert. They were playing a dance”. This latest set features his usual backing band, plus the superb Warren Vaché on five of the 10 titles, which include the immensely moving ‘Everything Must Change’, ‘I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone’, ‘Never Let Me Go’, a bossa-ish ‘Our Day Will Come’, an almost unrecognisable closing ‘Danny Boy’, plus some basic originals, again all treated so naturally and wholeheartedly by the band. Lafayette Harris and especially guitarist Rodney Jones come up with telling solos, Parrish is a tower of strength and Ector's discreetly funky back-beat is just right. Joe Fields passed away in January, but it's great that the label he co-founded will continue to support one of the very few musicians left who remembers the roots of jazz, but never sounds old fashioned.