I’ve been following the career of alto saxist Jim Snidero since his days with Toshiko Akiyoshi’s Jazz Orchesstra, and he never disappoints. He’s always reliable for delivering a hip bop album, featuring his golden tone for music that has history in it. This time around, he goes to a trio format with bassist Peter Washington and drummer Joe Farnsworth, focusing on the music that started modern jazz, Charlie Parker’s bebop. The songs are not imitative, but celebrative, veering around Washington on the romantic “These Foolish Tings”, nifty on the obscure blues of “Charlie’s Wig” and going into deep subtones on “Embraceable You”. Farnsworth ricochet’s through “Ornithology” and dances with his brushes on “The Nearness Of You”, setting the tone for Snidero to give a solo aria of “ Lover Man” that shows that less can be more. Comfort food melodies.