Antonio Faraò’s newest project, titled Tributes, is Faraò’s Criss Cross label debut, which was recorded in Meudon Studios in Paris in July 2023. The Milan-based pianist, then 58, convened an equivalently virtuosic trio comprising bassist John Patitucci and drummer Jeff Ballard, presented them with eight originals and two standards, and let them loose. Each member operates at a creative peak on this kinetic, beautifully proportioned 65-minute recital. It’s Faraò’s sixth trio album and he eschews ironic deflection and gratuitous structural complication, sustaining an attitude of in-the-moment creation and a fierce will to swing.