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Guitarist Shawn Purcell is back with a new album, and he put together about as good of an organ trio as you could possibly put together in 2022, with Jason Tiemann behind the drums and Pat Bianchi in the hot seat. In this largely original program, Purcell comes out swingin' on "Cat and Mouse," and romps through a pretty varied set of 11 tunes. He clearly feels at home on the bossa nova-esque grooves of "Fond Illusion" and "A Long Stroll" and his way with a ballad on "LTG" is something to behold. My favorite moment might very well be the last track on the album, "Search and Destroy," where he plays with his Jazziest tone yet and goes for broke on five and a half minutes of bliss. This is a good time, indeed.