Vintage sounding hard bop is delivered by the septet of Rob Alley/tp, Jon Noffsinger/as, Gary Wheat/ts, Daniel Western/bs, Tom Wolfe/g, Chris Kozak/b and Michael Glaser/dr on this collection of muscular originals. Western’s baritone sax is a mellifluous force of nature, bopping with abandon as the team digs in on “Guard Donkeys” while gentle on my mind on the easy “Read The Room”. Kozak plugs in and gets funky on the boogalooing “Green Lights For No On” and Glaser gets the congregation on its feet for the gospel’d “Gotta Keep “em Guessin’”. The modal “Ava’s Dance” sways to Noffsinger’s sweet alto and Wolfe is California cool on “Diggin’ The Dapples”. Timeless tones.