Cool fire from the Don like Cherry, flanked by bandmates Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins from the OG Ornette Coleman Quartet, plus James “Texas tenor” Clay on a lean, swinging trad set from 1989, newly reissued via Verve's By Request series.

Reissued for the first time in nearly 35 years, ‘Art Deco’ catches Cherry and co returning to simmering post bop fundamentals and traditional jazz fluidity after decades shaping myriad strains of free jazz. It’s expert levels of laid-back, sinuous and locked in verve, revolving multiple riffs on Ornette Coleman standards, as well as works by Thelonious Monk and their own compositions, among others. Ultimately it's surely one of Cherry's most broadly appealing suites, capturing the unit in New Jersey, in the days after playing together at Village Vanguard, NYC, and in enchantingly relaxed mood, until they unleash appropriately devilish energies on a cover of Coleman’s ‘Compute’.

The album is an effortless exhibition of Cherry’s quartet placing their wealth of experience at the service of your downtime. For the most part, they’re knit in convivial conversation, from the effervescent swang of the title tune, thru the shrugging bluesy lament of ‘Body and Soul’ with its sonorous bass work, to the nine minutes of heads down deadliness in ‘Bemsha Swing’, and Charlie Haden’s stripped back soloing in ‘Folk Medley’, and intoxicating smokiness of ‘I’ve grown accustomed to Your Face’. But like we say, they round off on a explosive take on their tutor, Ornette Coleman’s ‘Compute’, a wickedly grouchy crescendo.