The 45-year-old Italian saxophonist Starace has been a presence on the British scene since coming in his late teens to study at Birmingham Conservatoire, and the longstanding excellence of Watson and Cottle hardly needs emphasising. The leader's brief notes describe this as a blowing session, featuring straight-ahead playing with all three performers in the same space and not even requiring headphones, though the decision to go drummer-less is not explained. The repertoire includes a single waltz-time original alongside things like Chick Corea's ‘Got A Match?’, the Charlie Parker tune ‘Segment’ and two tunes associated with the late-1950s Cannonball Adderley. There's a lot of good work here but it's a shame that, despite Cottle's solid lines and occasional solos, his colleagues both occasionally rush their phrasing. It's also annoying that, on ‘Del Sasser’, Starace regularly gets hung up on bars 11-12, 27-28 and 51-52. Given that this is a comparative miss, maybe headphones would have been a good idea, and even more so a drummer.