When keyboardist and pianist Laurance spoke to Jazzwise at the start of this year he confessed it had taken a decade and three unreleased albums before his solo debut proper, Flint, emerged in 2014. Getting the bit between his teeth he more than made up for lost time with two more impressive studio sets, 2015's Swift and this year's Aftersun. He has of course been making albums aplenty and touring the globe as a founding member of Grammy-winning groovers Snarky Puppy, performing to huge crowds on relentless 180-date schedules for the past 12 years. Having heard Laurance live twice, with his string-laden group (as featured on Flint and Swift) and his stripped back percussion-driven quartet (from Aftersun), it's clear that he'd mastered the art of recreating his lush post-CTI sound live, yet with added punch and no shortage of improvisational daring. Thus, it's reassuring it has also translated onto this sparkling live recording and DVD from Islington's Union Chapel last year, Laurance joined by Snarky bandleader and bass maestro Michael League, drummer Robert ‘Sput’ Searight and UK percussionist Felix Higginbottom, plus the aforementioned string trio and French horn player Katie Christie. The pay off with Laurance's music is its salty-sweet mix of electro and acoustic and he works this to perfection across the set, with lilting rhapsodic piano interludes, intros and blistering solos when the mood takes him, before launching skywards on a searing Rhodes or Moog solo. League and Searight prove that thousands of hours on stage has made them a lean, mean, rhythm-section machine. Recorded and filmed with pristine precision, there's also the frisson of an expectant and excited crowd that further fires up their molten mix of dirty dub, fuzzed-up funk and hazy cinematic themes. Mining the best bits from Flint and Swift, this set rollocks along with the kind of sweet abandon and, no doubt, relief that Laurance has finally realised his long-held musical dreams as a solo artist.