Bassist Moppa Elliot's punky satirists MOPDTK, aside from having possibly the longest acronym in jazz band history, likes to target jazz's sacred cows. Isn't it about time someone did it from within the jazz ‘community’ rather than from outside? The band of self-styled ‘bebop terrorists’ will set about warmly recreating all the relatively unchallenged rules in the music only to mash them up in the next few bars. A few of their CDs have been released with mock reproductions of classic album sleeve portraits, such as those of Ornette Coleman and Art Blakey. With new release Blue they take things a whole lot further. This is a rare piece of pure conceptual art in jazz: a note-for-note performance of the modal milestone Kind Of Blue. There's a clue as to why in the booklet notes, an essay in the form of a review written in 1939 by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges titled Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote. It's about a 20th century fantasy writer who attempts to write Cervantes' Don Quixote verbatim from his own experiences. Borges prefers the new version even though they are exactly the same. This can be applied in an absurd kind of way to this recording too – and there are some jazz fans young enough not to have heard the original to perhaps find more in this version for them. It makes an interesting point. But Blue might also be aiming a more derisive pot shot at the ‘classical repertory’ approach towards jazz of certain funded institutions, educators and musicians. It's hard to know what to make of it musically. The brilliantly explosive trumpeter Peter Evans does manage to get impressively close to the most imitated trumpeter of them all and bass and drums are in the pocket. Meanwhile Jon Irabagon, on both tenor and alto, has the most difficult task but makes a brave and largely impressive attempt at both Coltrane and Cannonball solos. Even if it only serves to remind you of what's missing.