Over the decades Barron has played and recorded, seemingly, with everybody who was anybody, but for a few recent years his own highly-accomplished trio went unrecorded, until 2015's Book Of Intuition. Now, along with Kitagawa on bass and Blake on drums, we hear saxophonist Dayna Stephens and trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, and Barron makes masterly use of the classic quintet format. In a sequence of mellow, alluring and effortlessly intricate originals, his subtle modulations often look set to keep the music floating endlessly, but then touch down at last in satisfying resolution. Barron celebrated a big birthday in June, but he's clearly 75 years young.
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