Iconic jazz seniors bearing halos of spiritual gravitas sometimes go more for gravitas than music as the years pass – but not Randy Weston. Weston is the fine, Thelonious Monk-influenced jazz pianist who became captivated by the music and culture of north and west Africa in the 1960s and 70s. But this 2010 New York gig (with Weston an irrepressible 83) is a party, not an homage. The characteristic Africanised sounds of a Weston group are all here: the chord-chiming, drumlike, free-jazzy piano; the powerful hand-drumming underpinnings and ecstatically-strummed double-bass of Alex Blake; the plummy trombone of Benny Powell. They are augmented by the fine boppish saxophonist TK Blue, and by superb drummer Lewis Nash. Weston plays solo-piano tribute to Cuban percussion legend Chano Pozo by emphasising his African ritual roots rather than groove connections. In African Sunrise, TK Blue quotes 1940s classics Manteca, Hot House and Night in Tunisia. The lovely theme of The Shrine sounds somewhere between Monk and Abdullah Ibrahim and features delicious flute and trombone solos. Loose Wig is much more street-bop New York than Africa, and Weston's much covered Hi Fly, and its jostling relative Fly Hi, represent the band at full, audience-enthusing gallop.