This might be their recording debut as a trio, but this threesome has toured hard for the last two years. And of course, Morgan and Frisell have a couple of corking live duo recordings under their belt in Small Town and Epistrophy.

And just as Frisell calls forth the new from the familiar in his choice of bandmates, so much of the material laid down here has been visited before. For example, the seductive groove of ‘Baba Drame’, a song by one of his heroes, Boubacar Traore, illumined The Internationalists lineup, while the rich blues of ‘Levees’ was first cut on the soundtrack to The Great Flood.

But it's Frisell's ear for a classic song that he can remould in his own (or rather the trio's) musical image that catches the ear. Just as he could turn ‘Beautiful Dreamer’ into an epic and romantic heartbreaker, especially with Mike Gibbs, so here he takes the Bacharach/David classic, ‘What the World Needs Now is Love’ and renders pop silver into anthemic gold.

It's the same with standards, as the trio subtly conjure a detailed delicacy from Strayhorn's ‘A Flower is a Lovesome Thing’. Of course, it wouldn't be a Frisell album without mixing jazz and Americana (think ‘Gone Like A Train’) and here we have the lope into a Western sunset that is ‘Wagon Wheels’, trailing clouds of Charlie Haden and Sonny Rollins behind it.

Frisell also has that a gentle yet persistent political edge: the set closes with ‘We Shall Overcome’, a longtime staple of live performance. One day he won't have to play that song. But who knows when that day will be.