Alto sax icon Charles McPherson is caught at SMOKE Jazz club for a November run with all stars Terell Stafford/tp, Jeb Paton/p, David Wong/b and BillY Drummond for a mix of originals and covers. One of the Mingus alumni still alive, McPherson is in rich tone on the easy bopper “Ode To Barry” and shoes his blue tones on a gliding “Come Rain or Come Shine”. With Stafford, the front line is ESP-ish on “Dynamic Duo” and Stafford shows swagger on the jivey “Blues For Lonnie In Three” and glows on the glorious “ Old Folks”. Land of the Giants.