Vintage hard bop in the realm of Horace Silver and Art Blakey is served up by trumpeter Eric Jacobson and his quintet of Geof Bradfield/ts, Bruce Barth/p, Dennis Carroll/b and George Fludas/dr on this album of Blue Note-based originals. Barth taps into his inner Herbie Hancock on the rapid run of “Survival” and is jivey on the hip blues “Pause Time”. Jacobson is mellow and sleek on “ My Love For Amy” and forms a boogaloo line with the big and bod Bradfield on “Heading Home”, while the rhythm team sizzles to Fludas’ ride cymbal on “Sunset Suite”. Night of the cookers!