Young Leeds College of Music graduate Andrew Linham has been notching up the prizes of late, not least bagging a Yamaha Parliamentary Jazz Scholar Award. He plays baritone sax in latin-jazz outfit Yoruba but the alto is his home instrument, and it's with an alto to his lips that he leads his quartet on this, their debut release. It's a neat set of eight originals, mixing poised, tender balladry (‘Old Times’ Sake’, ‘Looking Back’) and more up tempo – though rarely frantic – boppish material (‘Never Really Over’, ‘Put It Out!’). When he does really let rip, as on ‘Wednesday Afternoons’, the lineage from Kenny Garrett is evident. But whether on rapid-fire or slowburn setting, Linham is a musician of tremendous invention and fl ow, and he's well served by his collaborators here: pianist Rob Brockway shines on ‘Too Close to Notice’, with its tricksy, tumbling opening motif. Linham has also performed with Michael Garrick's Big Band – the final track here, the dolefully muted-then-stylishly swinging ‘I Will Not Forget You’, is dedicated to the great man.