Several years ago it became something of a convention among soul artists to rush out an ‘in concert’ album just to keep their profile high in between studio recordings. Maxwell, Erykah Badu and Jill Scott all went down that road and it's tempting to dismiss this ‘live in the studio’ offering by Glasper as cynical market place ‘filler’. The man who has won R&B Grammys for the über success of Black Radio I & II, and who has, incidentally, worked with all of the aforementioned, is one of the prize draws on Blue Note's books, after all. Be that as it may, this is anything but a disposable set. It is an emphatic reminder of Glasper's trio chops, his deep roots in the blues and his ability to manoeuvre off this home ground into new soil. The fizzing, snapping, pneumatic rhythmic attack that defines several pieces, where Damion Reid's crisp double time snare is underscored by Glasper's nervy triplet flurries, generates the same kind of energy that endeared him to British audiences when he performed in venues such as Charlie Wright's what seems like an age ago. But, as the title suggests, the set is a series of reprises of well-known songs. The band's ability to make the material of others its own is proved emphatically by the intensely lyrical readings of Bilal's ‘Levels’ and Kendrick Lamarr's ‘I'm Dying Of Thirst’. The deep soulfulness of these tracks as well as, certainly in the last case, the intense drama they create, make for repeat listening.