At last – a live recording by Pelt's touring band. It's still a great shame that the trumpeter's earlier wonderful quintet with JD Allen, Danny Grissett, Dwayne Burno and Gerald Cleaver only recorded one gig track (a storming blues), but this current group is extremely good. Pianist Gould, one of this writer's tips for future acclaim, is particularly inventive, as on ‘Re-Invention’ where Pelt refused to show him the sheet music and forced him to play what he heard from the rhythm section, with Barber's almost vicious drumming spurring him on. He also contributed the melodic ‘Sir Carter’ from his own debut album, which features a particularly robust Pelt solo, as well as a decidedly Monkish piano intervention. There are three numbers from Jeremy's Make Noise CD, including the title-tune, ‘Chateau d'Eau’ and the challenging ‘Evolution’, which Barber kicks off with thoughtful percussion. Pelt brings two new originals – the haunting minor-key ‘Black Love Stories’ and the up-tempo ‘Melody for V’, which features the excellent Vicente Archer. The only standard is Michel Legrand's ‘I Will Wait For You’, with another heart-breaking ballad performance by the leader. The empathy between the five musicians becomes more evident with every listen, with the rhythm section extending the multi-tempo inventiveness of Miles' men in the mid-1960s. Pelt himself just gets better with every recording and he now has an instantly recognisable solo sound and style – and a knack for writing memorable compositions. A really rewarding album.