Drummer John Alvey hits hard with his hard bop team of Joel Frahm/ts, Jovan Quallo/as, Matt Endahl/p, Jaco Jezioro/b and Roland Barbert/tb on this collection of covers and originals. Barber’s trombone plunges deeper than the Roto-Rooter man with Endahl on “Baby Man” while Frahm blows smoke rings on the leader’s hip “Azure”. The leader glides with Jezioro on Ron Carter’s strutting “Blues For D.P.” and creates a lovely cadence for Quallo on the saxist’s “June 23” with the team revving the engines on the high octane read of Benny Golson’s “Terminal 1” . Finger poppin’ time.