by Scott YanowPianist Monty Alexander's Ivory And Steel group combines together bop-based jazz with Jamaican calypsoes and West Indian rhythms. On this quite enjoyable set, Alexander utilizes both Othello and Len Boogsie Sharpe on steel drums, either Marshall Wood or Bernard Montgomery on bass, drummer Marvin Smitty Smith and the hand drums of Robert Thomas Jr. Alexander contributed four of the rhythmic originals which are joined by some Jamaican folk songs (including Sly Mangoose), Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi and a couple of obscurities. The accessible results are often memorable.