Playing guitar and keyboards, Peter Xifaras brings together a team of Shunzo Ohno/tp, Xander Nichting/vi, Max Geri/b and Scott Jackson/dr with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra to mix jazz, funk and soul. There’s a push on the groove here, with the keyboards riding the 6/8 feel of “Chaos” and Ohno hip to the jive on “Shunzo”. Geri digs in deep on “Wild and Free” with Jackson going hip hop on the backbeat of “ B Blues” Xifaras gives a dreamy guitar solo on ”While My Guitar Weeps for Mehdi Rajabian” and his keyboards splash out a toe tapper on the upbeat “Till We Meet Again”. A tower of power.