Leader/arranger Jacobsen wants his charmingly- titled sextet to replicate the West Coast cool school of the 1950s, and fellow-trombonist Jiggs Whigham certainly approves. He describes their music in his note as “Quite simply – just wonderful.”

Fair enough, given their ease with the style, the quality of the arrangements and balanced playing of all concerned. The group have all the right attributes, good sound, calm execution, and the correct solo power to place them alongside Rogers, Cooper and company.

‘Open Country’ with its see-saw shape works well, the chart cleverly compiled, each front-liner getting a blow. ‘Nancy’ is voiced as a chorale, the close-company harmonies shaped to ebb and flow, trumpeter Lundgren reflective. Jacobsen and von Bülow open ’Limehouse Blues’ as a slow, limpid duet before the group bursts into a fast moving version of this old tune.

For ‘Blue Daniel’, it is again the trombonist who impresses, working capably in Rosolino-Johnson territory, his lead the strongest voice in the ensemble.

With its pleasing mix of old and new, established standards alongside originals, contrasting tempos and melodic clarity, and varied structures viz the neat use of counterpoint on the album title track, there’s plenty here to intrigue even if a greater degree of rhythmic zest might have been welcome.