Any jazzer who uses Ike Quebec as an inspiration for an album is all right in my book. Isrea Butler takes some time off from the Count Basie Orchestra for a vintage hard bopping album with Douglas Lawrence/ts, David Loeb/p, Steve Flora/b and Bob Chimei/dr. The band focuses on tunes associated wit Quebec’s days with Blue Note Records, and Lawrence was the right choice for the sax role, as his horn blows Quebec-like smoke rings throughout, laying down riffs on “Congo Lament” and sizzling over the blues, as on “Shuffle”. Butler has a warm buttery tone, gliding on the Latin lover ‘BG’s Groove Two” and having a hoot of a time on “Pennie’s From Heaven”. There’s soulful bliss on “Que’s Pills” and the horns sway like a Sunday Baptist choir on “See See Rider”. When are these guys hitting the road?!?