It's just over two decades since Coleman's Hot Brass sessions in Paris, a set of three live albums that established him as a brilliant performer and bandleader, as well as a challenging thinker in creative music. This double CD of concerts at one of New York's fabled venues is like another marker in time, given that much new music has been written by him in the interim and several shuffles of personnel have occurred. And yet there are constants – Five Elements is Coleman's longest running group and the drums and bass axis of Sean Rickman and Anthony Tidd has clocked up serious mileage, both on the road and in the studio with the leader. It can be heard. The pair makes one of the outstanding rhythm sections in any genre of music, by dint of the precision of their playing as well as the richness of their respective sounds. Rickman's strong but agile touch and Tidd's depth of tone and fluidity on swirling phrases are a thing of beauty. Coleman, trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson and guitarist Miles Okazaki also impress, particularly the first two for their seamless unison playing and alternation of lead and sideman roles. The music has the durable Coleman signature of rhythmic ingenuity and long cycles of rotating lines with ear-catching shifts of accent, a kind of studied bending of James Brown's beat towards a more lopsided funk. Then again, there is a distinct Diz ‘n’ Bird beboppery to some of the choruses, reminding you of how cleverly Coleman can tap into history and somehow avoid cliché. There is swing and groove aplenty here, and there is also the angst and the joy of a modern industrial age in a state of invigoration and investigation. Which is maybe why Coleman trusts ‘ancient ways’. Strong work from a contemporary icon.