Fast. That’s the main word you need to describe 26-year-old Kyrgyzstan-born, New York-based prodigy Eldar Djangirov. Career-wise he’s made very speedy progress: he started playing piano at age three and had his first album out when he was 14; Sony Masterworks signed him at 17; he had a Grammy nomination at 21. Breakthrough is his eighth album, and there’s already a ninth in circulation – Bach/Brahms/Prokofiev – devoted to his classical leanings. He has fast fingers too: this disc superabounds in keyboard runs of fierce fluency and steely precision, delivered at high velocity. The disc’s mixture of originals and standards – a little Gershwin here, a little Berlin there, topped off with a take on ‘Good Morning Heartache’ – balances bop against more classical influences (‘Hope’) and shows a pleasingly complex harmonic sense while remaining within a recognisably American jazz idiom, even when covering Radiohead (‘Morning Bell’). Guest turns from Chris Potter and Joe Locke on a couple of tracks add welcome variety to the basic trio set-up.