" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Davis languorous performance of "Milestones" could be regenerated as an extravagant and masterful Afro-Cuban adventure? And yet, between percussion colorist, Pedrito Martinez and Weinstein that chart has been completely reborn, making even Miles' original literally a thing of the past. As sacrilegious as that might sound, it remains absolutely true.

Beginning with the thunderous report of congas, timbales and batas, accented with splashing cymbals and drums clod-hopping in a mad dance around bass and piano the ensemble awaits the fluttering ululation of Weinstein's concert flute. No sooner does he enter the proceedings, he completely deconstructs the melody with dazzling gymnastics turning Miles' tune into a hypnotic, percussive masterpiece. This he daubs with superb touches of color and harmony giving it an ethereal beauty that is quite incomparable, while the percussionists—three in all—take the music to a breathtaking crescendo that sucks the proverbial air out of the lungs.

From there on it is all upward. "Timbasa" is another mesmerizing chart, an invitation to party for as long as there is music—something that the inner ear wants never to end.