Reboot couldn’t be more aptly named, as it marks Foster’s Blue Note return some fifty years after his debut Two Headed Freap. Ah, they knew how to monicker an album back then. And back then Foster was plugged into a soul funk vibe of wah-wah guitars and giant shades probably closer to Sly Stone than Jimmy Smith.

Foster went on to play on Benson’s ‘Breezin’’ and Stevie’s Songs in the Key of Life so the soul-funk credentials run deep. Indeed, there’s a shuffling take on Wonder’s ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ which should ease conversation around a candlelit dinner. As would the Benson-ish shimmy of ‘After Chicago’. But it would be disingenuous to suggest Foster’s new release is in the vein of the Blue Note organ classics.

‘Swinging’’ as the title suggests has a certain roogalating feel, but the soft rock of the title track is nearer the mark, as is the Carlos Santana tribute, ‘Carlos’. ‘Sultry Song II’ reveals its early 1990s heritage as a re-vamp of a song Foster recorded back in the day. So something of a curates’s egg, but given its release coincides with the re-issue of Two Headed Freap as part of Blue Note’s Classic vinyl series, there’s a certain symmetry that makes some marketing sense.