Saxophonist O'Higgins enjoys a stellar international career, while at home in the UK he's often worked with like-minded wife Judith in their double-headed 'tough tenors' band. But for his 19th album as leader, he fronts his long-established quartet, pianist Graham Harvey ringing the changes with some gently appealing work on the fashionable-again Fender Rhodes. And O'Higgins continues to come up with fresh and tuneful originals in the straight-ahead idiom, making them memorable with his big sound and fluid, endlessly inventive soloing. Recorded with an attractive, immediate sound in his own studio, it's all stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable.
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