Richard Galliano is a renowned jazz accordionist and innovator of musette, early-20th-century Parisian dance-hall music. He indeed brings a French touch to this album of jazz improvisation--along with a Brazilian, American, and Italian one. The result is an interesting collaboration among Galliano, saxophonist Michel Portal, drummer Daniel Humair, and the late bassist J.F. Jenny-Clark. Skipping between Miles Davis-influenced bop and Brazilian samba, the music here is rich in thriving rhythms laced with balmy French romanticism. --Karen Karleski