Back to Bernard Arcadio with Endless Staircase

In the Ceccarelli post, he contributed quite a bit to the later library albums they made together.

In this release he performs with a quartet, nominally, with guest guitarist Jean-Claude Chavanat.  He contributed two songs and the rest are composed by Mark Steckar and his son Franck.  Mark is a tuba, trombone and euphonium player who wrote the title piece which after a kind of laidback generic contemporary jazz start really gets into a nice complex appreciable groove:

Overall this was well worth the purchase due to the originality of the compositions which, like the example above, often start off in some kind of generic style but develop more intelligent and creative directions. In this respect it's similar to the Project One rip from a month ago, which I still find to be far more enjoyable than we had a right to expect.