Trumpeter Brian Lynch mixes ideas of the number seven with his septet session of Craig Handy/ts, Alex Wintz/g, Luis Perdomo/p, Boriz Kozlov/b, Kyle Swa/dr and Murph Aucamp/perc for, you guessed it, seven tunes. Percussionist Aucamp is a rich presence here, with the Horace Silver inspired originals dancing on “Finnegan’s Garden” and grooving hard with Handy and the leader on “Academy B lues”. A relaxed and bluesy “Sympathetic Vibrations’ and romantic “Greeting on 87th St” spotlight the importance of rich tones by the horns, while Wintz simmers on the easy swinger “On The Silver Road”. Indivisibly excellent.