English saxophonist Amy Gamlen trained at the Royal College of Music in London, studying with the likes of Stan Sulzmann, Martin Speake and Julian Argüelles, but relocated to the French capital soon after graduating. She’s been in Paris for more than a decade now and, judging by this engaging collection of original compositions for her quintet (supplemented on four tracks by David Prez on tenor saxophone), she’s absorbed plenty of continental ideas about avant-garde music making: the spirit of Igor Stravinsky and other leading 20th-century classical composers haunts some of these grooves. Not that there’s any shortage of UK and US jazz influences on display too, from Lee Konitz (in Gamlen’s own playing) to Duke Ellington (in her approach to writing for an ensemble). ‘Wolves’ has a magnificently snarling post-bop theme, with horn parts that recall Mingus at his compositional best; ‘Hesitate (Don’t)’ has a witty lurching rhythm – the sound of indecision – and fine solos from Gamlen, Thomas Savy on bass clarinet and Michael Felberbaum on guitar. Rigorous and inventive in equal measure, this suggests a talented young musician moving in a variety of interesting directions.