Didi opens fairly unpromisingly with "Hola Didi", a marshmallow soft slice of bossa that reeks of the hotel lounge. It's got a sort of kitsch charm about it, but just as you're thinking "well, that's alright but I couldn't eat a whole one" in comes "El Senor Mayor". Gelbard's thoughtful, relaxed electric piano and occasional squirty bursts of synth ride on a satisfyingly insistent swing, while an overdubbed Borraro piles up some fierce gusts of tenor sax. Gelbard opts for a soft, cloudy tone on his electric piano, sometimes shoving it through a wah wah pedal for some funky stabs. He's a delicate player, but a quirky one; his synth dabblings on the solo "Mojo Uno" have a touch of Sun Ra about them.

Borraro features more heavily on side two, and the percussionists shift things up a gear with some sweetly mobile, quirky latin grooves, particularly on "Alevecolaries", which has some of the intensity of a Pharoah Sanders Impulse session.

"Sombrero de Flores" revisits bossa territory, but the percussion toughens it up a little, encouraging the leader to put a bit more bite in his improvisations.The closing "Chau Ambrosio" gives Gelbardo and Borraro to indulge in straighter bebop derived soloing; the leader's Rhodes recalls Bill Evans' tentative experiments with electrification.Didi will no doubt appeal to dancefloor jazzers, but there's enough grit, muscle and inventionhereto keep the rest of us happy too..." Bbc review