As Ingrid Jensen notes, there are established jazz styles like swing and bebop, and then there are the originals who are “just their own thing, like Mingus, Ellington, Monk” – and the Canadian-born, Britain-based composer and trumpeter Kenny Wheeler, who died in 2014 at the age of 84. Fellow Canadian-born trumpeter Jensen studied with Wheeler and so is ideally placed to take the lead alongside saxophonist/clarinettist Steve Treseler, who performed with Wheeler, on this tribute album. The tracklist offers an engaging tour through Wheeler’s back catalogue, ranging from ‘Old Time’ drawn from his final, posthumously released album, Songs for Quintet, to classics such as ‘Everybody’s Song But My Own’ from 1988’s Flutter By Butterfly. Almost all of the material was recorded swiftly in Washington state, between a session at Robert Lang Studios in Shoreline and on stage at the Royal Room in Seattle. The qualities of Wheeler’s music described by the great man himself – chaos and melancholy – both feature evocatively in the spirited arrangements. A fine celebration.