Pianist Andres Vial teams with guitar great Peter Bernstein while mixing and matching Dezron Douglas-Martin Heslop/b with Andre White-Rodney Green/dr through some clever reads of the Theolonious Monk Songbook. Green and Douglas provide a “Poinciana” pulse for Vial on the sleek “Bluehawk” while White and Heslop get elliptical on a tipsy “Functional.” The team gallops for “Work” and Bernstein gets spacious during “Light Blue” and lightly bounces on “Ugly Beauty.” Vial himself is fun and quirky during “Think of One” and has fun with the acute angles of “Coming on the Hudson.” Vial succeeds on not letting Monk overpower the playing with his idiosyncratic compositions; a feat few succeed at.