Mark Weinstein has distinguished himself over the course of a long career going back to the 60s as a prolific, accomplished performer with a special affinity for Latin jazz. A collaboration with acclaimed rising star pianistcomposer-arranger Aruán Ortiz, this adventurous outing organically blends a free jazz sensibility with a churning Afro-Cuban undercurrent. With Gerald Cleaver supplying the free drumming element, Havana-born percussion master Román Diaz fueling the clave groove, and bassist Rashaan Carter providing an open-ended free jazz pulse, Weinstein and Ortiz practice an intriguing juxtaposition between discipline and the freedom principle on this stirring experiment.