It seems that the Japanese market can never get enough of piano trios. It all began back in the 1970s, apparently, with a series called “100 Golden Fingers” (or should that be 90 golden fingers and 10 golden thumbs?) featuring just about every important jazz pianist of the period (like Hank Jones, Jaki Byard, Tommy Flanagan etc) featured in a multitude of settings with the same rhythm section. Anyway, Venus is still churning them out and the key to success in that market is filling your albums with standards. This latest effort, by the unassuming, often overlooked, Kenny Barron, is as good as it gets. Because Barron is such a fine composer, it's a shame that there's only one original – a very fresh-sounding, rather quirky album title track, a minor blues in an unusual key and it swings along beautifully. The other nine tunes are all pretty well-known examples of the Great American Songbook, but all richly harmonised by Barron in his theme statements and his solos flow effortlessly with unlimited melodic ideas. Billie Holiday's ‘Don't Explain’ gets a different treatment – as a bossa nova. Mraz (like Buster Williams and Rufus Reid) is one of the very best of the older big-sounding, swinging bassists, but, due to strange miking and mixing, Riley's drums sound somewhat ponderous, with hi-hat and bass drum conspicuous by their absence. But Barron himself is superb.