Currently touring this country as part of the launch of the group's debut CD, Bird, Lingua Franca (right) is the embodiment of the fact that what keeps jazz alive is not re-creation but creation. One is for the museum; the other, with its risk-taking, mistakes and discoveries, is the recipe for what the New Yorker's critic, Whitney Balliet, once called "the sound of surprise". Purveying just that, Lingua Franca - Ronan Guilfoyle (bass guitar), Julian Arguelles (saxophones), Rick Peckham (guitar) and Tom Rainey (drums) - is an international quartet whose raison d'etre is a fresh look at music by or associated with the late, great Charlie "Bird" Parker. Anyone expecting straightforward bop, therefore, will get rather more than they bargained for - and could be pleasantly surprised.