The pianist made his debut trio album (Boyd's Blues) at age 85 and was featured in December 2011 in the New York Times and National Public Radio. That initial trio set had its holes and mis-steps but Boyd, whose solo follow-up this is, made his only previous records in 1953 with tenorman Big Jay McNeely (the session included ‘3-D’ and ‘Nervous Man Nervous’) and is the elder brother of Frankie Dunlop, who 50 years ago played with Monk and went on be an actor, songwriter and stand-up comic. But here the joke is on the media and producer Allen Farmelo, for Boyd's pre-Bill Evans cocktail piano fails to convince in these eight ‘originals’, liberally quoting public-domain material like ‘Danny Boy’, ‘Liebesträume No.3’ and ‘America The Beautiful’, all under different titles. He also improvises on more recent material as ‘Sweet Lorraine’. ‘Deep Purple’ and ‘Angel Eyes’, the latter in voicings recalling Randy Newman's ‘God’s Song'. I'm sure Randy would have something witty to say, but I haven't got the heart.